Streaming Guide – March 2025 | The Steampunk Explorer

Staff Report

Feb 26, 2025

Nosferatu is streaming on Peacock. Photo: Aidan Monaghan

Each month, The Steampunk Explorer offers a guide to steampunk-related films and series arriving on the top streaming services. We look for titles likely to draw interest from steampunk fans in some way, not necessarily those that fall squarely within the genre.

Science fiction and fantasy fans have much to look forward to in March, at least in theory: A new Marvel series on Disney+, a sci-fi blockbuster on Netflix, and Season 3 of The Wheel of Time on Prime Video. If period dramas are your thing, you can check out A Thousand Blows on Hulu. And Nosferatu, the acclaimed vampire film from Robert Eggers, is now streaming on Peacock.

Unless otherwise noted, these titles debut March 1. We can only confirm new arrivals in the U.S., but some titles may also be available on these streaming services in other countries.

If you want more for your watchlist, check out our new steampunk video guides. They feature the top titles in four categories, based on ratings from IMDb users:

Top Animated Films | Top Animated TV Series

Top Live-Action Films | Top Live-Action TV Series

Disney+

On March 4, Disney+ will premiere Daredevil: Born Again, a revival of the Marvel TV series about a blind lawyer with enhanced senses who moonlights as a masked vigilante.

Charlie Cox returns as the title character while Vincent D’Onofrio will reprise his role as Daredevil’s arch-nemesis Wilson Fisk. Jon Bernthal returns as Punisher.

The season will consist of nine episodes, beginning with two installments on Tuesday, March 4. Marvel has already greenlit a second nine-episode season that will stream in 2026. An earlier version of the series ran for three seasons on Netflix.

Hulu

On Feb. 21, Hulu began streaming A Thousand Blows, a historical drama from Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders. Set in the 1880s, it tells the story of two best friends from Jamaica who fight for survival in London’s East End. They’re drawn into a clash between a bare-knuckle boxing champion and the leader of the Forty Elephants, an all-female criminal gang. The series streams on Disney+ outside the U.S.

Hulu subscribers will also get another chance to see The Prestige, the 2006 Christopher Nolan film that has made some lists of top steampunk movies (including ours). It stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival magicians in 19th century London. David Bowie has a small but memorable role as Nikola Tesla. It begins streaming on March 14.

Also arriving is Rob Reiner’s acclaimed 1987 fantasy film The Princess Bride. And on March 7, Hulu will begin streaming Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the latest film featuring Mike Mignola’s demonic superhero. It received mixed reviews.

Netflix

In The Electric State—set in a retrofuturistic version of the 1990s—the world has been ravaged by a robot war, after which the bots are banished to a vast secured territory in the American West. Millie Bobby Brown stars as an orphan who journeys through this wasteland in search of her younger brother. Chris Pratt co-stars as an eccentric drifter who accompanies her.

The cast also features Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito, and Stanley Tucci. Other well-known actors have voice roles as robots, including Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo, and Alan Tudyk.

The film was adapted from an illustrated novel of the same name by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo reportedly produced it on a $320 million budget, which would make it one of the costliest films ever to come from Netflix. The Russo Brothers are best known for the Marvel Studios films Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. The latter two are the highest-grossing superhero films ever made.

However, fans of the book are crying foul based solely on the trailers. “Wrong tone, wrong vibe, wrong idea,” wrote one fan in a typical comment on YouTube. “Maybe [the] Russo brothers are just physically incapable of filming anything other than generic action flicks?” wrote another. Comments on Reddit are just as scathing.

“If the trailers are anything to go by, the Russo Brothers seem to have gone completely astray from the tone and flavor of the graphic novel that actually makes it work,” wrote Sandip Kishan Anbuselvan in a story for GameRant.

Netflix subscribers will have to wait and see. The Electric State begins streaming March 14.

Paramount+

The most notable arrival here is Pan’s Labryrinth, Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed dark fantasy film from 2006. The story, set in 1944 Spain, involves a ten-year-old girl who travels between the real world and a fantasy world populated by magical creatures.

The film received six Oscar nominations, winning for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Cinematography. It also won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, and a Nebula for Best Script.

Peacock

On Feb. 21, Peacock began streaming Nosferatu, the acclaimed 2024 vampire film from Robert Eggers. The film is a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic, which itself was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The cast features Bill Skarsgård as the vampire Count Orlok, Lily-Rose Depp as his victim Ellen Hutter, and Nicholas Hoult as Ellen’s husband Thomas Hutter. Willem Dafoe co-stars as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz, a character based on Abraham Van Helsing.

The film has received Oscar nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Prime Video

Photo courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios

Season 3 of The Wheel of Time, Prime Video’s epic fantasy series, begins streaming on March 13 with three episodes, followed by five more weekly episodes through April 17. The series is based on Robert Jordan’s bestselling novels. The first two seasons were well-received by critics.