WE’RE CURRENTLY AT winter’s coldest point, which means there’s little we’d rather do than curl up on the couch under a blanket, heaters blasting, for a night of streaming. The good news is that living in the golden age of streaming means there’s plenty to watch while we hibernate through winter. New content is hitting us from every direction, and in August, you can expect more of the same.
Jason Momoa’s new 18th-century epic set in Hawaii, Chief of War, is leading the charge on Apple TV+, arriving on August 1st. On Netflix, the second season of Wednesday is sure to be a topic of conversation. The newest addition to the Alien franchise is also premiering on Disney+, and Chris Hemsworth is set to take biohacking to new extremes in Limitless: Live Better Now.
With so much new content on offer, choosing what to spend your time watching is the hardest part. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime and HBO Max are so packed with must-watch films and shows that it can be difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the back burner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.
Not to worry, though, Men’s Health has you covered. To help you avoid scrolling the night away, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms, so you know what to stream in August 2025.
The best new series and films streaming in August
We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with what everyone’s talking about, this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.
- Chief of War, Apple TV+, August 1st
- Platonic season 2, Apple TV+, August 6th
- Wednesday season 2, Netflix, August 6th
- The Pickup, Amazon Prime, August 6th
- Outlander: Blood of my Blood, Stan, August 9th
- Alien: Earth, Disney+, August 13th
- Limitless: Live Better Now, Disney+, August 14th
- Peacemaker season 2, HBO Max, August 22nd
- The Thursday Murder Club, Netflix, July 28th
What’s new on Netflix Australia, August 2025
August Netflix Highlight – Wednesday, season 2
In season two of Wednesday, Jenna Ortega’s eponymous character is reeling from all the extra friendliness and positive attention she’s been getting since reluctantly saving her school in season one. She’ll soon have bigger problems, however, once new cast members Steve Buscemi and Billie Piper join Nevermore Academy’s teaching staff, with the intent of shaking up the school. Expect to see more of the Addams family in season two, with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman (Morticia and Gomez) slated for larger roles after being kept to the margins in season one.
Also coming to Netflix in August is The Thursday Murder Club, an adaptation of the first book in Richard Osman’s bestselling series. The film will see our beloved team of retirees take shape after the suspicious death of the property developer who owns their retirement village. The cast for the whodunnit is a who’s-who of gray and graying stars: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie are the members of the club, while David Tennant, Richard E Grant, Naomi Ackie and Jonathan Pryce also feature
What new series are coming to Netflix in August 2025?
August 1
Perfect Match: Season 3
August 2
Beyond the Bar
August 5
SEC Football: Any Given Saturday
August 6
Wednesday: Season 2 Part 1
August 8
Stolen: Heist of the Century
August 12
Final Draft
Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy
August 13
Young Millionaires
Love is Blind: UK: Season 2
Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians
August 14
In the Mud
Miss Governor: Season 1 Part 2
August 15
The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies
Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser
August 18
CoComelon Lane: Season 5
August 19
Rivers of Fate
August 21
Fall for Me
August 22
Long Story Short
August 28
Barbie Mysteries: Beach Detectives
My Life with the Walter Boys: Season 2
August 29
Two Graves
What new movies are coming to Netflix Australia in August 2025?
August 1
Brand Bollywood Downunder
My Oxford Year
August 10
The Iron Claw
August 13
Fixed
Songs from the Hole
August 14
Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II: The Ashes of Rage
August 15
Night Always Comes
August 19
America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
August 20
Forgive Us All
August 21
Fall for Me
Gold Rush Gang
One Hit Wonder
August 22
The Truth About Jussie Smollett?
Abandoned Man
August 23
The Beekeeper
August 27
Fantasy Football Ruined Our Lives
August 28
The Thursday Murder Club
August 29
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
August 30
The Brutalist
What’s new on Disney+ Australia, August 2025
August Disney+ Highlight – Alien: Earth
Alien: Earth is a prequel series to the original Alien film. It kicks off with a mysterious space vessel crash landing on earth, and you probably don’t need us to tell you what’s on board. A group of soldiers is dispatched to handle it, including Wendy (Sydney Chandler), a hybrid human who has had her consciousness transferred into a synthetic body. Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) is Wendy’s mentor, while the rest of the team is made up of humans and hybrids. As you’d expect, the mission probably isn’t going to go smoothly.
Limitless: Live Better Now starring Chris Hemsworth will also make its way to Disney+ in August. We’re not sure that a guy as fit as Chris Hemsworth really needs to live better now, but that’s what he’ll be attempting to do in Limitless. The movie star will take on three challenges designed to improve physical and mental health and prevent cognitive decline, including learning to drum in front of 70,000 Ed Sheeran fans, climbing a frozen 600-foot wall and undergoing Special Forces pain training. We guess when you’ve already reached peak fitness like Hemsworth has, you don’t get out of bed for a challenge lesser than any of those.
What new series are coming to Disney+ in August 2025?
August 1
Eyes of Wakanda
August 4
King of the Hill: Season 14
August 6
Lost Treasures of Egypt: Season 5
Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir: Season 6
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Reservation Dogs: Seasons 1-3
August 8
FX’s Necaxa
Ralph Barbosa: Planet Bosa
August 12
Marvel’s Iron Man and his Awesome Friends
August 13
Big City Greens: Season 4
Capturing Their Killer: The Girls on the High Bridge
FX’s Alien: Earth
August 14
Keeping Up with the Kardashians: Seasons 9-13
Limitless: Live Better Now
August 18
Are You My First?
August 19
Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror
August 20
Reminder
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
August 23
Twelve
August 27
Disney Jr. Ariel: The Little Mermaid: Songs from the Crystal Cavern
Shipwreck Hunters Australia: Season 2
What new movies are coming to Disney+ in August 2025?
August 1
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Leap of Faith
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Out-Of-Towners
August 22
Eenie Meanie
What’s new on Stan, August 2025
August Stan Highlight – Outlander: Blood of my Blood
Outlander: Blood of My Blood is a prequel to time-travel romance Outlander, revealing the origin stories of Jamie Fraser’s parents in 18th-century Scotland and Claire Randall’s parents in early 20th-century England. The dual-timeline explores the sweeping romances, political tensions and personal sacrifices that shaped two generations long before Claire and Jamie’s fateful meeting.
What new series are coming to Stan in August 2025?
August 3
Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner
August 7
Alert: Missing Persons Unit
August 9
Outlander: Blood of my Blood
August 14
The Goldbergs: Seasons 1 – 8
August 16
The Rainmaker
August 17
Serial Killer Wives
August 20
Accused
August 22
The Boy That Never Was
Legends of Akedo: Power Storm
August 27
A Very English Scandal
Pet Hotel
August 29
Dr Pimple Popper: Breaking Out
What new movies are coming to Stan in August 2025?
August 1
The Sandlot
August 2
Water For Elephants
The Teacher Who Promised The Sea
August 3
Revealed: Building Bad
Cosmopolis
August 4
Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace
August 5
Bran Nue Dae
A Silence
August 6
Let Me In
A World Apart
August 8
After We Collided
After We Fell
August 9
Duck Duck Goose
Friends With Benefits
August 10
The Iron Claw
One For The Road
August 11
Sirley
August 12
The Inbetweeners 2
Mediterraneo – The Law of the Sea
August 13
Black Hawk Down
The Pact
August 15
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
August 18
So Damn Easy Going
August 19
Wildlife
You Keep The Kids
August 21
Never Been Kissed
August 23
The Beekeeper
August 24
In Vitro
August 28
The Lodge
August 31
The Rover
What’s new on Amazon Prime Video Australia, August 2025
August Amazon Prime Video Highlight – The Pickup
Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson are just having one of those days in Pickup. The pair of armoured truck drivers have their cargo jacked by a criminal mastermind played by Keke Palmer, and as their day goes from bad to worse, the mismatched coworkers will need to work together to save their jobs. Eva Longoria and Marshawn Lynch also co-star.
Oscar-winning film Conclave is also making its way to Amazon Prime in August. Given recent events in the Vatican, it could be worth a watch.
What new series are coming to Amazon Prime in August?
August 1
Built in Birmingham: Brady and the Blues
August 13
Butterfly
Sausage Party: Foodtopia: Season 2
August 22
007: Road to a Million: Season 2
August 25
Upload: Season 4
August 27
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf
What new movies are coming to Amazon Prime in August?
August 1
The Addams Family 2
Beauty and the Beast
The Chocolate War
If I Stay
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Licorice Pizza
Lord of the Flies
Return to Treasure Island
Sherlock Gnomes
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
August 4
Hellboy: The Crooked Man
The Wolf of Wall Street
August 6
Den of Thieves
The Pickup
August 7
The Croods: A New Age
August 8
Daredevil
Elektra
August 9
Conclave
August 11
Top End Wedding
August 14
Flight Risk
August 15
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
The Siege at Thorn High
August 16
Werewolves
August 18
Red Right Hand
August 20
John Wick
The Map That Leads to You
August 25
Slingshot
What’s new on Apple TV+, August 2025
August Apple TV+ Highlight – Acapulco, season four
Chief of War is Apple TV+’s new 19th-century epic starring, executive produced and written by Jason Momoa. The nine episode series is set among the idyllic backdrop of the Hawaiian islands and centres on Ka’iana (Momoa), a warrior chief who travels the islands seeking to gain support for unification between Hawaii’s four major kingdoms before Western colonisation takes hold.
Bringing the indigenous perspective to the forefront, Chief of War‘s dialogue is spoken almost entirely in Ōlelo Hawai’i and features a predominantly Polynesian cast, including Temuera Morrison, Luciane Buchanan, Te Ao o Hinepehinga and Cliff Curtis.
Elsewhere, a number of series return on Apple TV+ with new seasons. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne’s buddy comedy Platonic is back for season two, while Invasion is getting a third season.
August 1
Chief of War
Stillwater, season 4
August 6
Platonic, season 2
August 22
Invasion, season 3
What’s new on HBO Max, August 2025
August HBO Max Highlight – Peacemaker, season 2
No, you didn’t imagine a John Cena cameo in James Gunn’s recent Superman reboot, that really was Cena as Peacemaker, writing off Superman. The cameo served to drum up hype for season two of Peacemaker, which arrives on HBO Max in August. The new season promises a new sense of purpose for the misguided almost-hero.
What new shows are coming to HBO Max in August 2025?
August 1
I’m Alan Partridge: Seasons 1-2
Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce
Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life
Alan Partridge’s Mid-Morning Matters: Seasons 1-2
This Time with Alan Partridge: Seasons 1-2
August 2
Kindig Customs: Season 10
The Playboy Murders: Season 3
August 3
Jackass Shark Week
Jackass Shark Week 2.0
Impractical Jokers: Shark Week Spectacular
Crikey! It’s Shark Week
Tracy Morgan Presents: Sharks! with Tracy Morgan
Great White Open Ocean
Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek
The Real Sharknado
August 4
The Yogurt Shop Murders
August 5
Expedition Bigfoot: Season 6
August 6
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills
Maritime Masters: Expedition Antarctica
August 7
Faster with Newbern and Cotten: Season 3
August 8
Tom and Jerry Gokko: Food and Home
August 10
Shark Week
Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus
Dancing with Sharks
Great White Reign of Terror
August 15
Florida’s Death Beach
Great White Assassins
911: Did the Killer Call?
August 19
Expedition X: Season 9
Celebrity IOU: Season 8
August 22
Peacemaker: Season 2
August 24
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?: Season 9
90 Day Fiancé Pillow Talk: Happily Ever After?: Season 9
August 25
Alma’s Not Normal: Seasons 1-2
Supergirl: Season 6
August 28
Rubiales vs Hermoso: The World Cup Kiss
What new movies are coming to HBO Max in August 2025?
August 1
Final Destination: Bloodlines
The Final Destination
Fatal Destination
August 2
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
August 9
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition
Gran Torino
Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre
August 16
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
King Richard
August 23
Magic Mike
The Beekeeper
August 19
Don’t Worry Darling
