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Shows like Foundation

2021 · Series · TV-MA · your starting point
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If Foundation is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.

Shows like Foundation, ranked

1. Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)

Zack Snyder's epic spans galaxies with sweeping worldbuilding and a scattered band of outsiders uniting against an empire's collapse, mirroring the grand civilizational stakes and ensemble resistance that drive Foundation's narrative across worlds.

Netflix

2. The Wandering Earth (2019)

Humanity's survival hinges on a desperate, generations-spanning plan to relocate civilization across the cosmos, blending intimate human stakes with massive-scale political and technological obstacles.

Netflix

3. The Wandering Earth II (2023)

When civilizations face extinction, both epics pit ordinary people against impossible odds to preserve humanity's future across vast scales, with each decision rippling across generations and worlds.

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4. Blake's 7 (1978)

Blake's 7 strips away the galactic empire's veneer of order to show you resistance through the eyes of fugitives who must constantly choose between survival and their fractured ideals.

Britbox

5. The Expanse (2015)

Isaac Asimov's sweeping meditation on civilization's collapse and rebirth finds its match in this solar-system saga, where personal investigation spirals into an existential struggle against forces reshaping humanity's future.

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6. Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

The Federation's moral compromise over a technologically advanced world mirrors Foundation's exploration of how civilizations rationalize sacrificing principles for survival, with Patrick Stewart's captain embodying the same principled defiance against institutional pragmatism.

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7. Battlestar Galactica (2004)

The ensemble cast navigates multi-generational survival across star systems while wrestling with impossible political decisions and the weight of humanity's future, grounded in the same methodical, character-driven approach to existential stakes.

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8. Interstellar (2014)

The epic scope of civilization-building and sacrifice across generations mirrors Foundation's exploration of how individual choices ripple through centuries to determine humanity's fate.

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