The Best Mars Documentaries

Space & the Universe - 48 free documentaries about mars.

Start with Was There Life On Mars And Other Mysteries Of The Solar System (129 min, Spark), then The Insane Engineering of the Perseverance Rover (20 min, Real Engineering). All 48 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on mars is Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.

• Was There Life On Mars And Other Mysteries Of The Solar System (129 min, Spark)
• The Insane Engineering of the Perseverance Rover (20 min, Real Engineering)
• Perseverance Mars Rover Landing- Inside Story (16 min, Mark Rober)
• Why Life on Mars Will DOOM Humanity (21 min, PBS Space Time)
• How this helicopter survived 1004 days on Mars, then disappeared... (29 min, Veritasium)
• Mars - Life on the Red Planet? (42 min, DW Documentary)
• How to Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Can Nuclear Propulsion Take Us to Mars? (22 min, Real Engineering)
• Earth to Mars in 10 Days (26 min, Real Engineering)
• How NASA Made The Indestructible Wheel (26 min, Veritasium)
• Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars) (16 min, Veritasium)
• Space Knowledge: Mars & Saturn | Zenith (52 min, Free Documentary)
• Martian Soil Is Deadly. And That's Why It Might Support Life. (21 min, PBS Space Time)
• What Are Mars "Blueberries"? | NASA's Unexplained Files (43 min, Science Channel)
• How Will SpaceX Get Us To Mars? (8 min, Real Engineering)
• Could We Terraform Mars? (20 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Drill we sent to Mars - Smarter Every Day 143 (12 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Why We Keep Looking For Signs Of Life On Mars (50 min, Spark)
• Can We Survive On Mars? (64 min, Spark)
• How Are We Going To Survive On Mars? (47 min, Spark)
• What Is The Curiosity Rover Doing On Mars? (22 min, Spark)
• THIS Is How We Build On Mars (10 min, The B1M)
• Mars 2020: Nasa's Next Mission To Mars (9 min, Veritasium)
• Mars Used to Be Blue... Then Something Happened (12 min, Be Smart)
• How Far Away Are We From Colonising Mars? (52 min, Spark)
• How Did Mars Lose All Of Its Water? | Naked Science Season 5 Episode 5 (46 min, Spark)
• Why Going to Mars Would Totally Suck (8 min, Be Smart)
• How does a Mars Rover work? (Perseverance) (17 min, Jared Owen)
• Venus and Mars | How the Universe Works (19 min, Science Channel)
• The Billion Dollar Preparation Behind The Curiosity Mars Landing (52 min, Spark)
• Mars Express: The Martian Probe That Is Running 20 Years Later (23 min, Spark)
• Martian Evolution (15 min, PBS Space Time)
• How NASA Learned Mars' Biggest Secret (47 min, Spark)
• The Advanced Technology That Will Take Us To Mars | The New Frontier (47 min, Spark)
• Everything We Know About Mars... So Far (23 min, Spark)
• Is There Life on Mars? (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• Did Life On Earth Come From Mars? (50 min, Spark)
• Will Mars or Venus Kill You First? (11 min, PBS Space Time)
• Martin Mars: The World's Largest Water bomber (45 min, Spark)
• A Year In Isolation: The Astronauts Preparing To Live On Mars (82 min, Spark)
• Space Exploration: Mars Curiousity & Satellite Swarms | Trajectory (24 min, Free Documentary)
• Space Exploration: Project Mercury, Mars Express, Space Ape | Trajectory (24 min, Free Documentary)
• The First Humans on Mars (11 min, PBS Space Time)
• Is It Possible For Wildlife To Exist On Mars? | Natural Kingdom (46 min, Real Wild)
• Should the First Mars Mission Be All Women? (11 min, PBS Space Time)
• What We Know About 'Life' On Mars (26 min, Spark)
• Life On Mars: How The Red Planet Became A Desert World (24 min, Spark)
• Botticelli’s 'Venus and Mars': A depiction of Renaissance love | National Gallery (14 min, The National Gallery)

Top-Rated Books About Mars

1. Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin - View on Amazon
3. Roving Mars by Steve Squyres - View on Amazon
4. Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
5. Mars and Venus in the bedroom by John Gray - View on Amazon
6. Mars and Venus Together Forever by John Gray - View on Amazon