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2026 · Series · TV-MA · your starting pointIf Star City is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Shows like Star City, ranked
1. For All Mankind (2019)
This series explores the same alternate space race timeline but from NASA's perspective, letting you experience how both superpowers pursued lunar dominance through competing visions of courage and sacrifice.
2. First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
The Soviet space program's ideological ambitions and technical ingenuity drive both narratives, with international competition and Cold War tensions underlying each mission's desperate push into the unknown.
3. King Of The Rocket Men (1949)
Rocket-suit espionage thriller with the same Cold War paranoia: scientists racing to weaponize advanced tech while a traitor operates from within their ranks.
4. Star Trek (1966)
The ensemble's ideological clash and sacrifice under authoritarian pressure mirrors how the Enterprise crew navigates hostile forces while maintaining their principles in an expansionist space race.
5. Foundation (2021)
The sprawling political machinations and impossible choices facing visionary leaders navigating civilizational collapse mirror the tension of watching an empire bet everything on a single technological achievement.
6. The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Hunt for Red October captures that same tension of Soviet operatives making impossible choices under intense scrutiny, where loyalty, survival, and hidden agendas collide in claustrophobic high-stakes scenarios.
7. The Doomsday Machine (1976)
The geopolitical tension and space-race urgency of the Soviet perspective finds its mirror in this Cold War-era thriller where competing superpowers weaponize space exploration as humanity's last hope for survival.
8. Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
The ensemble-driven rebellion against an oppressive regime mirrors Star City's tension between individual sacrifice and state power, while both deploy sprawling casts of specialists executing high-stakes missions under impossible odds.
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