Hard: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 10 h 10 min. An action film series centered around the character of John McClane, a New York City police detective who finds himself fighting a group of terrorists in each film.

1. 
   Movie 1

   Die Hard (1988)

   2 h 12 min · ★ 7.8

   High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only…

2. 
   Movie 2

   Die Hard 2 (1990)

   2 h 4 min · ★ 7.0

   One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington…

3. 
   Movie 3

   Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

   2 h 8 min · ★ 7.3

   New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane…

4. 
   Movie 4

   Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

   2 h 8 min · ★ 6.6

   John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.

5. 
   Movie 5

   A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

   1 h 38 min · ★ 5.3

   Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out…