LEGEND announces March 2026 premieres

An action-packed mix of cult classics, popular remakes and contemporary thrillers headline LEGEND’S selection of eleven Channel premieres in March, spearheaded by Kathryn Bigelow’s gripping, suspenseful, and brilliantly crafted, ZERO DARK THIRTY, which dramatises the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Then there is the 2005 action-packed remake of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, starring Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne, Clint Eastwood’s high-stakes assassination thriller THE EIGER SANCTION. and Frank Mitchell’s survival drama ALIVE, the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team forced to eat the flesh of their dead companions following a plane crash.

Further Channel premieres include grindhouse-inspired exploitation thriller MACHETE, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, the adrenaline-fueled SAFE HOUSE, starring Ryan Reynolds and Denzil Washington, savage adventure THE ISLAND (1980), starring Michael Caine, gritty action-thriller CONTRABAND, a remake of the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam, staring Mark Wahlberg, serial-killer thriller D-TOX, starring Sylvester Stallone, David Twohy’s taut submarine supernatural horror-thriller BELOW, and Kim Lee-Woon’s Neo-Western THE LAST STAND, that marks Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first leading role since Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).

Here’s the transmission order:

Sunday 1 March @ 21:00 – ALIVE (1993) *Channel Premiere

Friday 6 March @ 23:10 – MACHETE (2010) *Channel Premiere

Saturday 7 March @ 21:00 – ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (2005) *Channel Premiere

Sunday 8 March @ 21:00 – ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012) *Channel Premiere

Saturday 14 March @ 21:00 – SAFE HOUSE (2012) *Channel Premiere

Sunday 15 March @ 21:00 – THE ISLAND (1980) *Channel Premiere

Saturday 21 March @ 21:00 – CONTRABAND (2013) *Channel Premiere

Sunday 22 March @ 21:00 – D-TOX (2002) *Channel Premiere

Thursday 26 March @ 21:00 – THE EIGER SANCTION (1975) *Channel Premiere

Saturday 28 March @ 21:00 – THE LAST STAND (2012) *Channel Premiere

Sunday 29 March @ 21:00 – BELOW (2002) *Channel Premiere

LEGEND is available on Sky 148 / Virgin 149 / Freeview 41 / Freesat 137.