Indiana Jones: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 10 h 37 min. Adventure film series created by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman starring Harrison Ford as archaeologist Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., and directed by Steven Spielberg and James Mangold. Spanning the globe, on death-defying archeological endeavors, if adventure has a name... it must be Indiana Jones.

1. 
   Movie 1

   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

   1 h 55 min · ★ 7.9

   When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi…

2. 
   Movie 2

   Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

   1 h 58 min · ★ 7.3

   After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

3. 
   Movie 3

   Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

   2 h 7 min · ★ 7.9

   In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is…

4. 
   Movie 4

   Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

   2 h 2 min · ★ 6.0

   Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the…

5. 
   Movie 5

   Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

   2 h 35 min · ★ 6.5

   Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival,…