20 Best Adventure TV Shows on Amazon Prime Video 2026
Find 20 thrilling Amazon Prime Video adventure series, from fantasy quests to sci-fi escapes, including The Pendragon Cycle, Spider-Noir, and more.
If you’re hunting for the best adventure TV shows on Amazon Prime Video, this list makes it easy to find something worth starting tonight. Prime’s lineup mixes quest-driven fantasy, post-apocalyptic survival, sci-fi time travel, and fast-moving action, so there’s a lot to explore without drifting into endless scrolling. You’ll find newer standouts like The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin, Ride or Die, and Spider-Noir alongside proven favorites such as Stargate SG-1, 12 Monkeys, and The Grand Tour. For something darker, The Walking Dead: Dead City delivers tense survival drama, while Over the Garden Wall offers a shorter, stranger, and more charming journey. With 20 titles on the page, this guide is built to help you match your mood to the right series fast.
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The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin
action & adventure · drama · fantasy · science-fiction
Showcases a retelling of the Arthurian legend set in a Roman-occupied Britain where barbarian invaders threaten to lay claim to the island.
Directed by Jeremy Boreing, Ryan Whitaker, Jesse V. JohnsonCast Tom Sharp, Rose Reid, Alex Laurence-Phillips, Brett Cooper, Paul ClerkinAmazon Prime Video -
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Ride or Die
action · adventure · comedy
Best friends, Judith and Debbie, know everything about each other … well, almost everything. Judith has been living a double life that Debbie knows nothing about: she is a highly trained assassin. When a hit goes horribly wrong, Judith and Debbie must go on the run together and work to repair their broken friendship—all while being targeted by a mysterious enemy who wants them dead. And only together, can they solve this layered mystery.
Directed by Allison Liddi-Brown, DeMane Davis, Peyton Reed, Lauren WolksteinCast Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Ed Skrein, Calam Lynch, Savannah SteynAmazon Prime VideoFreevee -
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Over the Garden Wall
animation · short · adventure · comedy · drama · family · fantasy · horror · mystery
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this strange land, in hope of finding their way home. Join them as they encounter surprises and obstacles on their journey through the wood.
Directed by Nate CashCast Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Lloyd, Samuel RameyAmazon Prime VideoHulu -
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Lonesome Dove
adventure · drama · western
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
Directed by Simon WincerCast Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert UrichAmazon Prime VideoPeacock Premium -
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Spider-Noir
action · adventure · crime · drama · fantasy · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
Ben Reilly, an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.
Directed by Harry Bradbeer, Alethea Jones, Nzingha Stewart, Greg YaitanesCast Nicolas Cage, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham PopoolaAmazon Prime VideoFreevee -
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The Walking Dead: Dead City
action · adventure · drama · horror · thriller
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
Directed by Michael E. Satrazemis, Edward Ornelas, Kevin Dowling, Gandja Monteiro, Loren YaconelliCast Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Logan Kim, Gaius Charles, Zeljko IvanekNetflixAmazon Prime VideoAMC+ -
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The Terror
adventure · drama · horror · thriller
A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.
Directed by Tim Mielants, Edward Berger, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Michael Lehmann, Frederick E.O. ToyeCast Jared Harris, Derek Mio, Tobias Menzies, Kiki Sukezane, Paul ReadyAmazon Prime VideoAMC+ -
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Fallout
action · adventure · drama · sci-fi
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
Directed by Frederick E.O. Toye, Jonathan Nolan, Clare Kilner, Liz Friedlander, Stephen WilliamsCast Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Moises Arias, Frances TurnerAmazon Prime VideoFreevee -
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Invincible
animation · action · adventure · drama · fantasy · sci-fi · thriller
Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father’s tutelage.
Directed by Dan Duncan, Shaun O'Neil, Jeff Allen, Sol Choi, Ian AbandoCast Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, J.K. Simmons, Gillian Jacobs, Grey DeLisleAmazon Prime VideoFreevee -
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
action · adventure · comedy · fantasy · mystery · sci-fi
A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.
Directed by Michael Patrick Jann, Paco Cabezas, Tamra Davis, Dean Parisot, Richard LaxtonCast Samuel Barnett, Elijah Wood, Hannah Marks, Jade Eshete, Mpho KoahoAmazon Prime VideoAMC+ -
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12 Monkeys
adventure · drama · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.
Directed by David Grossman, Terry Matalas, Magnus Martens, Michael Waxman, Mairzee AlmasCast Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull, Barbara Sukowa, Emily Hampshire, Todd StashwickAmazon Prime Video -
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Black Sails
action · adventure · drama
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
Directed by Steve Boyum, Alik Sakharov, Lukas Ettlin, Stefan Schwartz, Neil MarshallCast Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Toby Schmitz, Hannah New, Jessica Parker KennedyAmazon Prime VideoStarz -
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Killing Eve
action · adventure · drama · thriller
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Directed by Damon Thomas, Stella Corradi, Jon East, Harry Bradbeer, Lisa BrühlmannCast Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, Owen McDonnellNetflixAmazon Prime VideoParamount Plus -
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The Odyssey
adventure · drama · fantasy · history
In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a decade long quest to reach home after the Trojan war, overcoming savage monsters, powerful forces of nature, and seductive nymphs, and he must outsmart them all, with all the guile and intellect he can muster.
Directed by Andrei KonchalovskyCast Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Geraldine Chaplin, Jeroen Krabbé, Christopher LeeAmazon Prime VideoFreevee -
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Batman: The Animated Series
animation · action · adventure · crime · family · mystery · sci-fi
Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".
Directed by Kevin Altieri, Boyd Kirkland, Frank Paur, Dan Riba, Dick SebastCast Kevin Conroy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Bob Hastings, Loren Lester, Robert CostanzoAmazon Prime VideoMax -
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Stargate SG-1
action · adventure · drama · sci-fi
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
Directed by Peter DeLuise, Martin Wood, Andy Mikita, William Waring, William GereghtyCast Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Richard Dean Anderson, Don S. DavisNetflixAmazon Prime VideoFreevee -
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Jujutsu Kaisen
animation · action · adventure · fantasy · thriller
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
Directed by Shouta Goshozono, Sunghoo Park, Yôsuke Takada, Takeru Satoh, Ryôhei TakeshitaCast Jun'ya Enoki, Adam McArthur, Yuma Uchida, Yûichi Nakamura, Asami SetoNetflixAmazon Prime VideoHulu -
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The Grand Tour
adventure · comedy · sport · talk-show
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back with a show about adventure, excitement and friendship... as long as you accept that the people you call friends are also the ones you find extremely annoying. Sometimes it's even a show about cars. Follow them on their global adventure.
Directed by Phil Churchward, Kit Lynch Robinson, Brian Klein, Gavin WhiteheadCast Caitlyn Stephenson, Denis MichalletAmazon Prime VideoFreevee -
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PAW Patrol
animation · adventure · comedy · family
Marshall, Rocky, Rubble, Zuma and Skye are doing their best to protect the people of their town. Led by Ryder, a tech-savvy 10-year-old boy, each of them is equipped with special equipment and together they help anyone who finds themselves in trouble. No task is too big for them and no puppy is too small.
Directed by Charles E. Bastien, Paul H. Brown, Jamie Whitney, Dipesh MistryCast Ron Pardo, Lilly Noelle Bartlam, Kallan Holley, Justin Paul Kelly, Devan CohenNetflixAmazon Prime VideoParamount Plus -
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Young Sherlock
action · adventure · mystery
Sherlock Holmes is a disgraced young man – raw and unfiltered – when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder case that threatens his liberty. His first ever case unravels a globe-trotting conspiracy that changes his life forever.
Directed by Anders Engström, Guy Ritchie, Tricia Brock, Dennie Gordon, Colm McCarthyCast Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Dónal Finn, Natascha McElhone, Max Irons, Holly CattleAmazon Prime VideoFreevee
Wrapping Up
This roundup pulls together a wide mix of adventure-forward TV, from epic fantasy and high-stakes drama to science-fiction and action-packed road trips. Whether you want the mythic pull of The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin, the sharp style of Spider-Noir, or the long-running appeal of Stargate SG-1, there’s plenty here to fit a night of easy watching. Bookmark this page and come back when you want a fresh pick, since it’s updated regularly as new series arrive and old favorites keep finding new fans.
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Last updated: September 11, 2026