Where to watch the Indiana Jones movies in order

With the latest installment in the Indiana Jones saga, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fateright around the corner, what better time than now to revisit the previous films (and television series) in the franchise?

Harrison Ford returns for Indy’s latest adventure, this time teaming up with Phoebe Waller-Bridge as they try to stop Mads Mikkelsen’s Nazi scientist Jürgen Voller. John Rhys-Davies returns to reprise his role from the first and third films, while Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook and Toby Jones complete the rest of the cast.

Looking for the Indiana Jones movies and the prequel TV series, The Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones? You can view them all Disney Pluswith the exception of Dial of fate — at least while it’s still in theaters.

Here are two viewing orders to choose from:

Watch Indiana Jones movies in release order

This one is simple – just the order they came out. The only real outlier here is the prequel TV show, but this way you get a sense of where the franchise was when it came out. The number in brackets is the year the movie (or series) was released.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2. The Temple of Fate (1984)
3. The Last Crusade (1989)
4. The Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones (1992-96, including four TV movies)
5. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
6. The dial of fate (2023)

Watch Indiana Jones movies in chronological order

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This viewing sequence will give you a largely complete picture of Indy’s life. Only two order changes here, but they’re essential: the prequel TV series goes first, and Temple of Doom (which takes place a year earlier Raiders of the Lost Ark despite coming out three years later) bounces on a lock. You get bonus points if you can pass The Last Crusade‘s 1912 intro in you The Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones review.

The number in brackets is the year the movie (or show) takes place.

1. The Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones (1908-1920)
2. The Temple of Fate (1935)
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1936)
4. The Last Crusade (1938)
5. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (1957)
6. The dial of fate (1969)