Shaft: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 8 h 47 min. Legacy of the films and the television series of the same name dating from the 70s featuring a Harlem cop with unorthodox but effective methods. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.

1. 
   Movie 1

   Shaft (1971)

   1 h 40 min · ★ 6.4

   Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

2. 
   Movie 2

   Shaft's Big Score! (1972)

   1 h 45 min · ★ 6.1

   John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

3. 
   Movie 3

   Shaft in Africa (1973)

   1 h 52 min · ★ 6.1

   Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

4. 
   Movie 4

   Shaft (2000)

   1 h 39 min · ★ 6.0

   New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial,…

5. 
   Movie 5

   Shaft (2019)

   1 h 51 min · ★ 6.5

   JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s…