Shark Week (1987)

Name: Shark Week
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 7.6

Documentary

The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, first broadcast on July 17, 1987, is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Held annually, normally in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

IMDb rating: 7.6 (509 votes)
Seasons: 14
Streaming (US): HBO Max · Discovery+ Amazon Channel · Discovery
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 14 seasons indexed

Seasons

Season 16 (2003)

6.96 avg 5 episodes 6.5 → 7.1 50 min avg

Rebound

Season 16 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Anatomy of a Shark Bite	6.5	31
4	Diary of a Shark Man	7.4	7
5	Robo Shark	6.0	12
6	Shark Roulette	7.8	9
7	Jaws of the Pacific	7.1	26

Season 18 (2005)

5.67 avg 3 episodes 5.8 → 5.1 42 min avg

Season 18 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
2	Sharkbite! Surviving Great Whites	5.8	16
3	American Shark	6.1	11
4	Shark Hunter: Chasing the Great White	5.1	20

Season 23 (2010)

7.22 avg 6 episodes 7.7 → 7.3 47 min avg

Season 23 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ultimate Air Jaws	7.7	31
2	Into the Shark Bite	6.8	20
3	Shark Attack Survival Guide	7.8	20
4	Day of the Shark 3	6.6	18
5	Shark Bite Beach	7.1	23
6	Shark Bites: Adventures in Shark Week	7.3	36

Season 24 (2011)

6.84 avg 7 episodes 6.5 → 6.3 46 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 24 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Great White Invasion	6.5	17
2	Jaws Comes Home	7.5	23
3	Rogue Sharks	7.1	11
4	Summer of the Shark	7.3	12
5	Killer Sharks	7.5	17
6	How Sharks Hunt	5.7	17
7	Shark City	6.3	20

Season 25 (2012)

6.89 avg 9 episodes 7.0 → 7.1 47 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 25 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Air Jaws Apocalypse	7.0	25
2	Shark Week's Impossible Shot	6.8	16
3	Sharkzilla	6.5	14
4	MythBusters Jawsome Shark Special	6.2	12
5	How Jaws Changed the World	7.2	61
6	Adrift: 47 Days with Sharks	7.8	51
7	Shark Fight	6.9	11
8	Great White Highway	6.5	17
9	Shark Week's 25 Best Bites	7.1	23

Season 26 (2013)

6.57 avg 10 episodes 3.2 → 7.8 47 min avg

Season 26 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives	3.2	350
2	Return of Jaws	6.8	15
3	Voodoo Sharks	5.6	23
4	I Escaped Jaws	7.7	14
5	Spawn of Jaws	6.8	16
6	Top Ten Sharkdown	7.0	11
8	Great White Serial Killer	6.1	31
9	Sharkpocalypse	7.1	13
10	Alien Sharks	7.6	28
11	Great White Gauntlet	7.8	13

Season 27 (2014)

6.35 avg 8 episodes 5.6 → 4.7 53 min avg

Season 27 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Shark Week Sharktacular	5.6	11
1	Jaws Strikes Back	7.1	20
2	Air Jaws: Fins of Fury	6.6	17
3	Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine	5.4	99
4	Monster Hammerhead	7.3	23
5	Alien Sharks II: Return to the Abyss	7.0	19
6	Lair of the Mega Shark	7.1	23
7	Zombie Sharks	4.7	61

Season 28 (2015)

6.11 avg 8 episodes 6.6 → 6.3 45 min avg

Season 28 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
3	Monster Mako	6.6	22
4	Return of the Great White Serial Killer	6.4	15
5	Alien Sharks: Close Encounters	6.5	16
7	Tiburones: The Sharks of Cuba	6.1	16
8	Super Predator	6.2	14
9	Ninja Sharks	5.8	17
10	Sharks of the Shadowland	5.0	9
13	Shark Alley: Legend of Dynamite	6.3	10

Season 29 (2016)

6.06 avg 12 episodes 6.0 → 6.4 44 min avg

Season 29 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
3	Return of the Monster Mako	6.0	13
4	Isle of Jaws	5.7	18
5	Shallow Water Invasion	5.6	18
6	Jaws of the Deep	5.9	18
7	Sharks Among Us	5.8	12
9	Air Jaws: Night Stalker	6.3	21
10	Deadliest Sharks	7.5	15
11	Sharks vs. Dolphins: Face Off	5.6	18
12	Nuclear Sharks	5.9	16
13	Jungle Shark	6.1	17
14	Shark Bait	5.9	9
15	Blue Serengeti	6.4	21

Season 33 (2020)

6.73 avg 6 episodes 6.4 → 7.6 42 min avg

Season 33 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
2	Air Jaws 2020	6.4	17
3	Great White Serial Killer Extinction	7.3	14
4	Abandoned Waters	6.2	16
6	Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble on the Reef	5.9	20
7	Sharks of Ghost Island	7.0	11
9	Extinct or Alive: Land of the Lost Sharks	7.6	16

Season 34 (2020)

6.32 avg 6 episodes 6.0 → 5.7 43 min avg

Bad finale

Season 34 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
5	Will Smith: Off the Deep End	6.0	25
12	Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek	7.0	8
13	Great White Comeback	6.0	7
27	Monster Sharks of Andros Island	6.7	11
28	Mystery of the Black Demon Shark	6.5	27
29	I Was Prey: Terrors of the Deep 2	5.7	8

Season 35 (2019)

6.54 avg 5 episodes 5.5 → 7.3 43 min avg

Slow burn

Season 35 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Isle of Jaws: Blood Brothers	5.5	17
10	Monster Under the Bridge	7.4	11
11	Adam Devine's Secret Shark Lair	5.2	14
14	Great White Double Trouble	7.3	6
20	Alien Sharks: First Contact	7.3	15

Season 36 (2022)

6.51 avg 14 episodes 6.5 → 6.0 44 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 36 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Belly of the Beast: Feeding Frenzy	6.5	18
2	Jaws vs the Meg	6.8	6
3	Serial Killer: Red Sea Attacks	6.3	6
5	Monsters of the Bermuda Triangle	7.0	5
6	Alien Sharks: Strange New Worlds	6.9	24
7	Mako Mania: Battle for California	7.0	9
8	Raiders of the Lost Shark	6.7	11
9	Monster Hammerheads: Killer Instinct	6.5	6
13	Jaws in the Shallows	6.3	10
14	Monster Mako: Fresh Blood	6.0	10
16	Tropic Jaws	6.3	10
17	Deadly Sharks of Paradise	7.3	10
18	The Haunting of Shark Tower	5.6	5
20	Megasharks of Dangerous Reef	6.0	5

Season 37 (2024)

7.04 avg 21 episodes 7.4 → 6.9 44 min avg

Season 37 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Belly of the Beast: Bigger and Bloodier	7.4	16
2	Jaws vs. Leviathan	6.3	20
3	Makozilla	7.1	11
4	Sydney Harbor Shark Invasion	7.6	11
5	Big Shark Energy	6.7	7
6	Shark Frenzy: Mating Games	6.4	8
7	Great White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood	8.3	7
8	Deadliest Bite	7.4	8
9	6000 LB Shark	7.1	12
10	Monster Hammerheads: Species X	7.2	12
11	Great White North	7.1	11
12	Expedition Unknown: Sharks vs Nazis in Paradise	8.0	12
13	Alien Sharks: Ghosts of Japan	7.1	31
14	Monster of Oz	5.7	15
15	Caught! When Sharks Attack	7.2	10
16	Great White Danger Zone	7.4	11
17	The Real Sharkano	6.6	8
18	Sharks of the Dead Zone	6.3	17
19	Shark Attack Island	7.0	11
20	Sharktopia	7.1	11
21	Mothersharker: Hammer Time	6.9	7

Shark Week (1987)

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