Bigfoot Movies and TV Shows: The Ultimate Watch List (2026)

Bigfoot has been a screen star for more than fifty years. It has appeared in drive-in docudramas, family comedies, found-footage horror, Saturday morning TV, reality shows and serious documentaries. Some of these titles helped build the legend, and some just had fun with it. A few are genuinely scary.

This watch list sorts the best-known Bigfoot movies and TV shows by mood. Release dates and credits come from each title's Wikipedia article, linked in our sources. Availability on streaming services changes often, so check your favorite service before movie night.

Type: Documentary · Director: Marq Evans · Runtime: 103 minutes

If you follow Bigfoot news, you've heard about this one. Capturing Bigfoot premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on March 12, 2026. According to its Wikipedia article, XYZ Films scheduled it for select U.S. cities and digital purchase or rental on Amazon Prime Video on October 20, 2026. That date also happens to be the anniversary of the famous Patterson–Gimlin film.

The documentary focuses on the people behind the 1967 film, not on whether Bigfoot exists. Here's how its Wikipedia article describes the story:

Reviewers at People, The Austin Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal and Skeptical Inquirer all covered the film. Whatever you believe, it's the most talked-about Bigfoot release in years. For the full story of the 1967 footage, read our upcoming Patterson–Gimlin film guide.

Watch it if: You love true-story documentaries and want to make up your own mind.

Charles B. Pierce's docudrama about the Fouke Monster of southern Arkansas is the granddaddy of Bigfoot films. It mixes staged interviews with local residents and reenactments of their encounters. Wikipedia reports that Pierce made it on a budget of $160,000, with funding from a local trucking company and help from local high school students. It was released in theaters on August 23, 1972, and became a drive-in favorite. Learn the real backstory in our Fouke Monster post.

Watch it if: You want spooky, swampy 1970s atmosphere.

A Seattle family hits a Bigfoot with their car, brings him home, and ends up with the world's hairiest houseguest. Directed by William Dear and starring John Lithgow, this family comedy put a friendly face on Bigfoot for a whole generation. Rick Baker created the makeup and creature design for Harry, and the late Kevin Peter Hall played him. Steven Spielberg was an uncredited executive producer. Filming took place in Washington's Cascade Range. The movie led to a Harry and the Hendersons TV series that ran from 1991 to 1993. Our Bigfoot in Washington State guide has more Evergreen State lore.

Watch it if: You want a feel-good family movie night.

These are the scariest picks on the list. They're fiction, but they borrow heavily from real Bigfoot lore.

Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait wrote and directed this found-footage horror film. A couple heads into the woods around Willow Creek, California, to shoot a documentary about Bigfoot lore, and things go wrong. It's slow, quiet and famously tense, and it's full of real Bigfoot-country landmarks.

Watch it if: You like slow-burn scares.

Directed by Eduardo Sánchez, one of the co-directors of The Blair Witch Project, this found-footage monster film follows a group of friends hunted by something in the woods of East Texas. It premiered at South by Southwest on March 7, 2014. Check out our Bigfoot in Texas guide for the real reports behind the setting.

Watch it if: You want a straight-up creature feature.

Directed by David and Nathan Zellner, this absurdist film follows a family of Sasquatch over one year, with no human characters at all. Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg are among the stars, unrecognizable under the fur. It's strange, funny, gross and sometimes surprisingly moving.

Watch it if: You want something completely different.

Chris Butler wrote and directed this stop-motion adventure comedy. Mr. Link (voiced by Zach Galifianakis) is a lonely Sasquatch who teams up with explorer Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman) to travel to the Himalayas in search of his Himalayan cousins. The film is beautifully animated and kind-hearted.

Ben Stassen and Jeremy Degruson directed both of these animated films. In the first, a teenage boy discovers that his missing father is Bigfoot. In the sequel, Bigfoot becomes famous and uses his fame to fight an oil company. Bigfoot Family premiered at the 2020 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

In Daniel Chong's Cartoon Network sitcom about three bear brothers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the recurring character Charlie is a friendly, chatty Bigfoot.

Watch them if: You're sharing your love of Bigfoot with the kids.

This live-action children's series began in 1977 as 15-minute cliffhanger segments on ABC's The Krofft Supershow. It became its own series in 1979, with a total of 28 episodes. Bigfoot is the hero here.

In the 1970s, these shows featured a bionic Bigfoot in three separate stories, two of them two-part episodes. Wrestler André the Giant played the creature in the first two-parter, and Ted Cassidy took over in the later episodes. Bigfoot starts out as an enemy and ends up a friend.

Watch them if: You love retro TV and a bit of cheese.

The best-known Bigfoot show of all time. A team of four researchers traveled the country looking for evidence. Animal Planet premiered the show on May 29, 2011, and the 100th episode, the series finale, came out on May 27, 2018, with a special following in 2021. Wikipedia notes that the team never found conclusive evidence, but the show earned high ratings anyway.

This series premiered on June 22, 2013, on Destination America and later aired on Travel Channel. It follows the A.I.M.S. team (Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings), six West Virginia hunters and trappers who chase creatures through the mountains. Pair it with our Appalachian Bigfoot guide.

This History channel series investigated cryptids and other strange reports from around the world, with Bigfoot among its subjects. It aired from October 31, 2007, to March 24, 2010.

For season 6 of Survivorman, survival expert Les Stroud went looking for Bigfoot while surviving alone in the wilderness.

Watch them if: You like the hunt as much as the creature.

Whether you believe, doubt or just love a good monster story, there's a Bigfoot movie for every mood.

Dates, credits and production details are taken from each title's Wikipedia article as of October 2026. Streaming availability varies by service and region.