Apple TV+ has an intriguing mix of new movies and shows arriving throughout October 2025, including two documentaries film fans won’t want to miss – one about a filmmaking legend, and another that’s an intimate portrait of the life of one of Hollywood’s biggest comedy stars.
This month’s new releases will be joined by new episodes from Invasion season 3, Slow Horses season 5, The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy and The Morning Show season 4. Notably, the crime thriller series The Savant, which had been scheduled to be released alongside five new Apple TV+ movies and shows in September is still postponed, so we don’t yet know if or when that might premiere.
For the full list of new Apple TV+ arrivals in October 2025, see below – and make sure to let us know in the comments which movie or show you’ll be starting with on one of the best streaming services once you’ve finished compiling your watchlist.
The Lost Bus
Director: Paul Greengrass
Run time: 2 hours and 9 minutes
Arriving on: October 3
This month’s big Apple TV+ movie is a harrowing disaster flick based on a heroic true story about Kevin McKay, a bus driver who saved 22 children from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire that raged for 18-days in California.
The Lost Bus sees Matthew McConaughey star as McKay, alongside America Ferrera who plays Mary Ludwig, one of the two school teachers who were on the bus, in a heart-stopping thrill ride. It sounds a lot like a fiery take on the 90s action classic Speed, but with an authenticity that is bound to make it a tense watch.
The Sisters Grimm
Showrunner: Amy Higgins
Run time: 30 minute episodes
Arriving on: October 3
It’s taken 20 years, but Michael Buckley’s The Sisters Grimm – a popular children’s books series that was originally conceived as a TV pitch, according to an interview with the author – is finally a six-part TV show.
This looks like a great adaptation for the little ones in the family. It’s about two sisters, who are descended from the Brothers Grimm, that get sent to live with their grandmother in a mysterious town filled with characters from all our favorite fairy tales, from the Golden Goose to Hansel and Gretel.
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
Host: Jesse Burgess
Run time: 30–60 minute episodes
Arriving on: October 10
Anyone else love a cooking show that goes into the meticulous culinary process behind plating up an award-winning meal? Well, this is the show for us – Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars is an eight episode series that goes into the heat of a fine dining kitchen.
Executive produced by none other than Gordon Ramsay, the series visits restaurants in New York, Chicago, the Nordics, the UK, Mexico, Italy and California, giving us a fly-on-the-wall perspective as these cooks look to earn their first, second or third Michelin star.
The Last Frontier
Creators: Jon Bokenkamp and Richard D’Ovidio
Run time: N/A
Arriving on: October 10
A new action-packed thriller that’ll be gracing your screens with a new episode every Friday from October 5 until December 5, The Last Frontier is a survival drama series that looks like a non-stop adrenalin rush.
It opens in a similar vein to Con Air, as a plane filled with prisoners crash-lands in the wilds of Alaska, and quickly turns into a wildly violent manhunt that threatens the safety of a small and isolated community. With the FBI looking for one of the inmates in particular, a lone US marshal senses foul play – but is he right? Can he protect the town? We’ll have to watch to find out.
Loot season 3
Creators: Matt Hubbard and Alan Yang
Run time: 23–30 minute episodes
Arriving on: October 15
Maya Rudolph is back to reprise her role as Molly Novak – the former wife of a tech billionaire who invests her $87 billion divorce settlement into a philanthropic organization that she sets up – in the hit Apple TV+ comedy sitcom Loot.
In the third installment, we’re set to see Molly continue both her goals to give away that vast fortune and her will-they-won’t-they romance with colleague Arthur, played by Nat Faxon. Expect plenty more laughs across 10 new episodes that will release weekly following a two-episode premiere.
Mr. Scorsese
Creator: Rebecca Miller
Run time: 40–60 minute episodes
Arriving on: October 17
Fan of the best Martin Scorsese movies? You’re going to want to put Mr. Scorsese on your watchlist. In this five-part documentary, the filmmaker reveals never-before-seen footage from his private archives, and also features in-depth interviews with some of his closest collaborators.
They include some of Hollywood’s biggest names like Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader and Margot Robbie… the list goes on for what’s set to be a cinephile’s delight.
Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost
Creator: Ben Stiller
Run time: 1 hour and 37 minutes
Arriving on: October 24
A new Ben Stiller and Apple TV+ collaboration will no doubt pique everyone’s interest following the award-winning workplace sci-fi series Severance that he mostly directed, so fans of both the show Stiller himself will no doubt be intrigued watch the documentary he’s made about his parents, Seinfeld star Jerry Stiller and his wife and comedy partner Anne Meara.
Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost tells Jerry and Anne’s life story using home movies and rare interviews with their daughter as well as celebrities like Christopher Walken and Stephen Colbert. It even features personal scenes of self-meditation from Stiller himself, making this a real insight into the entire Stiller clan.
Down Cemetery Road
Creator: Morwenna Banks
Run time: N/A
Arriving on: October 29
Like Netflix and Harlan Coben, Apple TV+ can’t seem to get enough of a Mick Herron tale. With Slow Horses season 5 unravelling and season 6 of the hit spy series greenlit, the streamer is set to release another adaptation of the author’s books that looks like a twisty-turny mystery.
Based on Herron’s debut novel of the same name, Down Cemetery Road follows a bored house wife (Ruth Wilson) who hires a ruthless quick-witted private detective (Emma Thompson) to help her solve the riddle of a missing child after a bomb goes off in her leafy suburban neighborhood.
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