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15 Shows Like The 100 — Post-Apocalyptic Survival, Moral Dilemmas, and Faction Wars
Finished The 100 and need more? These shows share the same brutal survival stakes, impossible moral choices, and 'the good guys don't always win' energy.
15 FILMS·April 2026·By MoviesPack
Section 1
The 100 Formula
The 100 spent its first episode pretending to be YA sci-fi and then spent six seasons asking how far people will go to survive. **The show's best quality: nobody had clean hands.** Clarke, Bellamy, and the council kept making choices that saved some people by killing others, and the show refused to let them off the hook. If you want television that takes survival seriously — that makes the moral calculus feel genuinely impossible — these are your shows. [Use our tool: Shows Like The 100](/shows/similar/the-100) — algorithmically matched
Section 2
The Closest Matches
01
Lost
2004–2010
★8.3IMDb
A plane crashes on an island in the Pacific and the survivors try to stay alive and get rescued. They find the island is already inhabited — by other people, by something that sounds like a monster in the jungle, by stations built for purposes no one will explain. Six seasons of expanding mythology, faction conflict, and a question — "what is the island?" — that the show answers on its own terms.
Why it matters
The faction dynamics, the moral compromises of leadership, and the escalating mythology match The 100 beat for beat. Both shows ask the same question — what do we owe to the group, and what can we justify to protect it? — and both refuse to answer it cleanly. The Others function like the Grounders: a community with legitimate grievances that the survivors keep failing to understand.
02
The Wilds
2020–2022
★7.3IMDb
Eight teenage girls from completely different backgrounds crash-land on a deserted island after their plane goes down. They survive — badly, with conflict, with secrets coming out. The first episode tells you the crash may not have been an accident. Dual timelines: the island survival and the post-rescue interrogation that frames it. The show understands the Lord of the Flies thesis better than most.
Why it matters
Survival plus conspiracy plus moral fractures plus an ensemble of people who'd normally never interact. The female perspective on the stranded-group genre is genuinely fresh.
03
3%
2016–2020
★7.3IMDb
Every year, young people from the poverty-stricken Inland compete in a series of brutal psychological and physical tests. The 3% who pass get to move to the Offshore — a paradise where resources are unlimited. The 97% who fail go back to the slums. A young woman enters the process convinced the system is fair and gradually learns what it's actually built on. Brazil's first Netflix original series. The political allegory about meritocracy and who gets to decide the rules is sharper than The 100's.
Why it matters
Faction politics, survival competition, and a protagonist learning the system is built on lies. The escalating revelation of what the Offshore actually is mirrors The 100's mythology reveals.
04
Snowpiercer
2020–2024
★7.1IMDb
A climate engineering experiment froze the Earth and killed almost everyone. The survivors live on a train called Snowpiercer that never stops moving — first class in the front, second class behind them, the impoverished tail in the back. The class system has festered for years and the tail is about to revolt. Based on the Bong Joon-ho film. The show has the same faction-leaders-making-impossible-choices structure as The 100 — everyone has understandable reasons, everyone does terrible things.
Why it matters
Post-apocalyptic society, competing factions with different worldviews, and the question of whether survival is worth it if you lose your humanity getting there.
05
Station Eleven
2021–2022
★8.1IMDb
A flu pandemic moves through the world in weeks, and when it's done, ninety-nine percent of humanity is gone. Twenty years later, a traveling Shakespeare company moves between surviving settlements in the Great Lakes region, performing for communities that have rebuilt small lives from almost nothing. A cult leader called The Prophet is moving toward them. The show jumps between the initial outbreak, the twenty-year-later present, and the years between — all connected by a group of people who were in the same theater the night everything started. Less action-forward than The 100 but the same question underneath: when civilization collapses, what's worth keeping?
Section 3
The Post-Apocalyptic Survival Shows
06
Revolution
2012–2014
★7.3IMDb
Electricity stops working worldwide — permanently, with no explanation — and fifteen years later the United States has fractured into militias that control food, water, and what's left of the technology. A teenage girl searches for her captured brother, and the journey keeps pulling her deeper into the politics of who gets to decide who survives. The world-building is strong and the show has The 100's exact appetite for faction conflict and impossible moral choices at the leadership level.
07
The Crossing
2018
★7.0IMDb
Hundreds of refugees suddenly appear in the ocean off a small American town — they're not from another country, they're from the future, and the future they're fleeing is a war so catastrophic they'd rather risk arriving 150 years early than go back. A local sheriff has to figure out what to do with them. Government agencies arrive with their own agenda. The mystery of what future event is being fled, and who's trying to prevent the refugees from changing it, drives the single season to a cliffhanger that unfortunately never got resolved.
08
Containment
2016
★7.3IMDb
A mysterious viral outbreak hits Atlanta and the government quarantines an entire section of the city — walls go up overnight, separating families, trapping thousands of people with a disease nobody understands yet. Inside, different groups splinter as resources run out and suspicion spreads. Outside, a reporter and a CDC official try to trace the source while also fighting the institutional response that's treating the quarantined as expendable. The accelerating paranoia about who knew what, and whether the outbreak was natural, mirrors The 100's political conspiracy threads exactly.
Section 4
The YA Dystopia Shows
09
The Society
2019
★6.9IMDb
A group of high school students returns from a cancelled camping trip to find their Connecticut town is completely empty — every adult gone, the roads leading out of town ending in forest that loops back. They have food, they have houses, they have no idea what happened or how to get home, and they have to figure out how to run everything themselves. It starts as a mystery and becomes a political drama about who gets to make the rules when the old ones are gone. Lord of the Flies-inspired and cancelled by Netflix before it could answer its own questions — but the single season is genuinely compelling.
10
Tribes of Europa
2021
★6.9IMDb
A mysterious global catastrophe in 2029 fractured Europe into dozens of warring micro-states, each with its own culture and rules. Three siblings from a pacifist woodland tribe are separated when their home is destroyed, and each one ends up embedded in a different faction — one ruthless, one utopian, one somewhere in between. They're all trying to find each other while a technology artifact they stumbled onto turns out to be what every tribe is fighting over. German science fiction with The 100's exact tribal politics and the same willingness to make all sides partially right and partially monstrous.
11
The Shannara Chronicles
2016–2017
★6.2IMDb
Earth's civilization collapsed so long ago that magic has replaced technology, elves and trolls and druids have evolved from human survivors, and the ruins of skyscrapers and highways are visible under the new landscape. When ancient demon creatures start returning, a half-elf and a runaway princess have to find an artifact powerful enough to stop them. Based on Terry Brooks' novels. The visual concept — the old world buried under the new — is the most interesting thing The 100 ever did with its setting, and Shannara goes further with it.
Section 5
The Morally Complex Sci-Fi Shows
12
Dark Matter
2024–present
★7.9IMDb
Jason Dessen is a physics professor in Chicago — happy marriage, teenage son, life he chose. One night he's abducted, injected with something, and wakes up as a celebrated scientist who apparently never had that family. A version of him from a parallel universe took his life and left him stranded in the wrong one. He has to navigate an infinite branching multiverse to find his way back, while the other Jason tries to hold onto what he stole. The identity horror and impossible moral choices about who has the "right" to a life are as merciless as anything The 100 ever asked.
13
See
2019–2022
★7.6IMDb
A plague wiped out most of humanity centuries ago, and the survivors lost their sight. Over generations, humanity rebuilt without vision — new languages, new architecture, new combat. Then two children are born who can see, and a powerful religious order wants them dead before the knowledge spreads. Jason Momoa leads the tribe protecting them. The moment the "sighted ones" emerge and every faction has to decide what it means for their power mirrors The 100's grounder-vs-sky-people collision exactly — a society built on one assumption encountering proof that the assumption was wrong.
14
Raised by Wolves
2020–2022
★7.5IMDb
Earth has been destroyed in a war between atheists and a religion called the Mithraic. Two androids — Mother and Father — escape to a new planet carrying human embryos, tasked with raising the next generation without religion. The Mithraic find them anyway. Mother turns out to be a reprogrammed weapon capable of things she wasn't told about. The children start asking questions nobody has answers to. Three seasons of ambitious, strange science fiction about faith, creation, and what humans do when their factions follow them to a new world.
15
Colony
2016–2018
★7.4IMDb
An alien force occupies Earth and Los Angeles gets divided into walled districts — movement controlled, resources rationed, families separated by which side of the walls they ended up on. Will Bowman was a Special Forces operator before the occupation. Now he's trying to find his son, who got stranded in another district on the day everything changed. A Resistance recruits him; the occupying authority offers him a deal. Three seasons of the brutal compromise every occupied population faces: collaborate, resist, or keep your head down and watch everyone suffer either way.
Section 6
Quick Match Guide
| Want... | Watch | |---------|-------| | The original inspiration | Lost | | Sleek competition dystopia | 3% | | Class warfare post-apocalypse | Snowpiercer | | Slower, literary | Station Eleven | | Same teen faction energy | The Society, The Wilds | | Harder sci-fi | See, Raised by Wolves | | European setting | Tribes of Europa |
Section 7
Want More?
- [Full list: Shows Like The 100](/shows/similar/the-100) — 20+ algorithmic matches - [Post-apocalyptic shows](/shows/mood/dark) — survival after the end - [Sci-fi drama shows](/shows/mood/sci-fi) — big ideas, small characters - [Morally complex TV](/shows/mood/intense) — shows that don't let anyone off the hook - [What show should I watch?](/shows/discover) — random recommendation
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