Hornblower: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 13 h 23 min. A series of 8 films adapting the Horatio Hornblower book series.

1. 
   Movie 1

   Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)

   1 h 40 min · ★ 7.5

   Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.

2. 
   Movie 2

   Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998)

   1 h 33 min · ★ 7.5

   Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.

3. 
   Movie 3

   Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)

   1 h 33 min · ★ 7.2

   Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

4. 
   Movie 4

   Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)

   1 h 40 min · ★ 7.2

   Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

5. 
   Movie 5

   Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)

   1 h 38 min · ★ 7.4

   Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.

6. 
   Movie 6

   Hornblower: Retribution (2001)

   1 h 38 min · ★ 7.4

   Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.

7. 
   Movie 7

   Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)

   2 h 5 min · ★ 7.3

   Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

8. 
   Movie 8

   Hornblower: Duty (2003)

   1 h 36 min · ★ 7.3

   Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.