UDPATED: December 2020
We get this question a lot: How can I watch Stargate episodes and movies online?
Whether you are brand new to the Stargate franchise or just looking to revisit a favorite episode, there are places you can legally watch Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, SGU, and the movies on the Internet — at least with the right subscription. (Episodes and full seasons are also available for sale, if you’d rather download it to own.)
Here’s a quick and handy guide for where the shows are currently streaming for U.S. viewers. Outside the U.S. check these and other digital streaming services and retail outlets. Rights differ from one country to the next, and they change from time to time. If you don’t need episodes on demand, Stargate is also currently being broadcast (typically one or two episodes per day) on Comet and on MGM’s Sci-Fi channel on Roku.
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Only want SG-1’s episodes that are important to the ongoing storylines? Cut your viewing time in half with GateWorld’s Key Episodes watch list.
We will try to keep this guide updated as things change. If you know of a change in one of the show’s online availability, please drop us a tip!
WATCHING STARGATE SG-1
Amazon: All 10 seasons are currently included with Amazon Prime. Prime subscribers can watch the show’s entire run for no additional cost. (The SG-1 follow-up movies, The Ark of Truth and Continuum, are only available on Prime with the STARZ add-on (unless you want to rent or purchase them).
Netflix: All 10 seasons are also now streaming on Netflix. When last we checked Seasons 1-4 are in 4:3, and Seasons 5-10 are in 16:9 widescreen.
Hulu: All 10 seasons of SG-1 are available to stream on Hulu (with a paid subscription). Hulu costs $5.99 per month with ads, or $11.99 per month ad-free.
Here’s the order we recommend you watch them in — especially if you are mixing Stargate Atlantis in there, too.)
If you have access to both Amazon Prime and Hulu, watch the show through Amazon. The visuals are a higher quality, with a 16:9 aspect ratio. (Hulu seems to have the original 4:3 episodes in 480p, which in some older seasons can look quite grainy on modern HD displays.)
Episodes and seasons are available for purchase from: iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, and other retail sites.
Video Quality: If you have options, Amazon has the best video quality. Seasons 1 through 7 of Stargate SG-1 were produced in an era when HD televisions were not common, and edited in both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. In the U.S. only Amazon Prime Video currently has newer, digitally upscaled copies of these seasons (bringing the picture up to around 720p, and all in widescreen). Production switched to HD cameras with Season 8, so the final three seasons are in HD and widescreen everywhere.
WATCHING STARGATE ATLANTIS
Amazon: All five seasons are currently included with Amazon Prime. Prime subscribers can stream all 100 episodes of the show for no additional cost.
Hulu: All five seasons of SGA are available to watch with your Hulu subscription.
Episodes and seasons are available for purchase from: iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, and other retail sites.
Video Quality: Stargate Atlantis is available in both HD and standard definition. (At retail, HD of course runs a few bucks more.) Streaming services will stream the highest quality your Internet connection is able to handle.
WATCHING STARGATE UNIVERSE
Amazon: Both seasons of SGU are currently available free with Amazon Prime. Prime subscribers can stream all 40 episodes of the show for no additional cost.
Hulu: Both seasons are available on Hulu in their entirety.
Episodes and seasons are available for purchase from: iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, and other retail sites.
Video Quality: Stargate Universe is available in both HD and standard definition.
WATCHING THE STARGATE MOVIES
Amazon: The original Stargate feature is currently streaming free with ads on Amazon Prime Video.
At present, none of the three movies appear to be available on the major streaming services.
Amazon Prime subscribers with the STARZ add-on can find The Ark of Truth and Continuum. The SG-1 movies are also on Hulu with the STARZ add-on.
The original film also does not appear to be available for sale at present. However the two SG-1 movies are available to rent or purchase from: iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, and other retail sites.
Video Quality: The Stargate movies are available in both HD and standard definition.
WATCHING STARGATE ORIGINS
Stargate Origins was originally released in February and March, 2018, as a 10-part Web series. It streamed exclusively at MGM’s official Web site, StargateCommand.co. Since that site went offline at the end of 2019, Origins is no longer available anywhere in this format. (Find more details on the site’s closure here.)
In June of 2018 the series was re-cut as the feature-length movie Stargate Origins: Catherine. That is available to buy from iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Vudu, and elsewhere.
Amazon: The feature cut Stargate Origins: Catherine is currently streaming free for Prime subscribers.
YouTube: The feature cut is also currently streaming for free, with ads, on YouTube.
Video Quality: Stargate Origins is available in both HD and standard definition.
STARGATE INFINITY
The 2002 animated series is not an official part of Stargate’s canon — and it isn’t available to stream online for free from any of the major carriers. However you can now watch through Amazon Prime by purchasing the “CONtv” add-on service ($4.99 per month after a 7-day free trial).
Hoopla also has all 26 episodes available to borrow. This is a service available only to public libraries — so you have to have a library card, and your library must be a Hoopla subscriber. Then you can “check out” episodes for 72 hours at a time, and watch them through mobile devices, a Web browser, and certain streaming apps. There are limits to the number of items you can borrow in a month.
Infinity ran for a single season and is available for purchase on DVD.
IS STARGATE ON NETFLIX?
While it has been in the past, the Stargate TV series are not currently licensed to Netflix in the United States.
There are more than 350 episodes of Stargate … so get to it! Whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth, we hope you enjoy watching.
While you watch you can find deep-dive episode analyses right here at GateWorld, along with discussion forums for every season and episode, cast and crew interviews, the Stargate Omnipedia, and much more to keep you company along the way.
This guide is accurate as of the date listed at the top. If you’ve spotted a change on one of these streaming services, please take a moment and let us know.
Now if only they’d put ORIGINS on Blu-ray and produce another season of it–but this time, make it good.
You can currently watch SG-1 on Comet TV. They continuously cycle through the three series, showing episodes twice a day. They have a TV app and can be watched online, and it’s all free. Word of caution, though — there is no on-demand, only live feed.
Thanks, David — great tip! Comet is online at: https://www.comettv.com/
In the UK all 17 seasons are currently available on now tv/sky go
You can check here https://www.justwatch.com/uk/search?q=stargate
The El Rey channel on direct TV has SG-1 and Atlantis.
This was a major selling point for me with VRV. I love the Stargate series. SG-1 is one of my favorite shows of all time and sometimes I just need to binge some.
Aside from anime, VRV also has about a dozen channels that aren’t related to anime, including a CuriosityStream for documentaries and Shudder for horror movies.
Stargate SG1, all TEN Season are on Amazon Prime!
Not in Canada.. the last few seasons aren’t available on Canadian Prime, in fact, they used to be included with Prime, but now you have to sub to Prime’s MGM channel to get the first 7 seasons instead. MGM is pretty cheap though, at I think 4 or 5 bucks a month.. AFAIK, all the movies are available In Canada , as well as SG Atlantis, but again, they’re all on Prime/MGM . So it’s only the last 3 seasons of SG-1, and SG Universe, that isn’t available in Canada. I did try to buy a membership in Gateworld half… Read more »
Doccus: Do you mean Stargate Command (not GateWorld)? We’ve never had paid memberships here. Stargate Command stopped taking subscriptions around September-ish, just before announcing that the site was closing at the end of 2019.
Amazon Prime now has Ark of Truth and Continuum.
Updated with the SG-1 movies on Prime — thanks, gnoel809!
Note that all of the options for SG1 is unavailable outside of the US.
Some of Stargate has left Amazon Prime. The original movie, SGA and SGU are gone, SG1, Ark of Truth, Continuum & Origins remain.
As of 8/10/19, it looks like Stargate Atlantis is back on Amazon Prime in US. It’s playing on my computer. I also see all 10 seasons of SG-1, too.
Hulu is missing episode 17 of season 5. Customer service said they couldn’t get the rights to that one episode. Kind of weird, but I thought I warn you.
Hehe, Suckers pay for decades old content :p
Star Gate SG-1 was available free on Comet TV when you use the antenna. It’s on Mon – Fri from 10 pm to midnight. It’s currently showing the last of the series. Hoping that they will start Star Gate Atlantis soon. Especially since we are all stuck home!
Amazon Prime doesn’t include stargate with prime anymore, and you now have to buy each season separately, or subscribe to the mgm service.
David: I double-checked and I still see all three shows on Amazon Prime (U.S.), as of April 19, 2020.
Season 5 of SGA is not available on Prime in canada, but the rest of the seasons are. Kinda strange.
Just bought the whole DVD box of stargate Atlantis. This is the only way to see the series in sweden again./ Stargatefan
This should be updated – as of right now, the series aren’t available even for purchase on Amazon, at least where I am (the U.S.).
Updated — thanks, Nick! It’s bizarre that the episodes aren’t even available for purchase on Amazon right now. This happened last year and they were still findable, but each show had an entirely separate listing for sales (one was sales, one was Prime Video). But I don’t see that now.
So why isn’t this on netflix nor prime in europe?
Found this page where it says hulu.. never heard of that. Shaka zulu yeah, but hulu no.
Cool that everyone and their mother is starting a stream service.. NOT
It’s back on Amazon.Just watched a full episode tonight. It is a bit flakey right as it kept defaulting to an episode in season 10 but after a while I was able to select the episode in season 3 where I left off before they took it down last month. I also checked and Atlantis is back up there too.
Thanks for the head’s up, Cofga! I’ll get an update posted.
There is no SG1 on Amazon Prime!!! Was just there, did several searches and NOTHING!!!!! Your information is BS mate!!! Do some actual research eh!!!
Just tried to sign up with HULU but they won’t accept my area/zip code!!! WTF!!! That’s twice now your advice has turned out to be BS!!! FFS all I want to do is watch some SG-1 but everything I try leads to a dead end or some BS glitch…SMH
Glenn: Sorry that you’ve been experiencing difficulties. I suspect you might be outside the U.S., which would explain both the Amazon an Hulu problems. Amazon’s rights vary country by country; and Hulu is currently a U.S.-only service.
As stated at the top, the info on this page is for the U.S. market. Elsewhere, check your local listings.
Hulu cuts the heck out of Universe
Watched the original movie on Amazon prime today (in USA)!!