DC Watch Order

15 Dec 1978

The film that proved a man could fly, and that comic-book movies could be sincere.

19 Jun 1981

Three Kryptonian criminals arrive on Earth just as Clark considers giving up his powers.

17 Jun 1983

A comedic turn pits Superman against a computer tycoon, and briefly against himself.

21 Nov 1984

Kara Zor-El comes to Earth to recover a lost power source in this spin-off of the Reeve films.

24 Jul 1987

Superman takes on nuclear disarmament, and Lex Luthor builds a solar-powered rival.

28 Jun 2006

A loose sequel to Superman II that quietly ignores the two films between.

23 Jun 1989

Tim Burton’s gothic Gotham, and a Joker who defines the role for a generation.

19 Jun 1992

Batman faces the Penguin and Catwoman in a stranger, colder Christmas Gotham.

16 Jun 1995

Joel Schumacher takes over and floods Gotham with neon, Riddler and Robin.

20 Jun 1997

The camp extreme of the era, and the film that ended it for eight years.

23 Jul 2004

A designer gains feline powers in an adaptation connected to no other DC film.

18 Feb 2005

A chain-smoking exorcist bargains for his soul at the edge of Heaven and Hell.

17 Mar 2006

A masked anarchist wages a campaign against a fascist Britain.

6 Mar 2009

Retired vigilantes investigate a murder in an alternate 1985 on the brink of nuclear war.

18 Jun 2010

A scarred bounty hunter with a link to the dead hunts a terrorist in the Old West.

17 Jun 2011

Hal Jordan joins an intergalactic police force in a film DC has since left behind.

30 Jun 2028

An animated origin for two Robins, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, told outside DCU continuity.

15 Jun 2005

Bruce Wayne trains abroad and returns to build the symbol Gotham needs.

18 Jul 2008

The Joker forces Batman and Gotham to decide what they are willing to become.

20 Jul 2012

Eight years on, a broken Bruce Wayne faces Bane and the reckoning of his choices.

14 Jun 2013

Clark Kent learns where he came from as General Zod arrives to remake Earth.

25 Mar 2016

A wary Batman sets out to stop Superman while Lex Luthor engineers the collision.

5 Aug 2016

Amanda Waller assembles imprisoned villains into a deniable black-ops team.

2 Jun 2017

Diana leaves Themyscira for the First World War and becomes a hero to the outside world.

17 Nov 2017

Batman and Wonder Woman recruit a team to face an invasion after Superman’s death.

21 Dec 2018

Arthur Curry is drawn into a war for the throne of Atlantis.

5 Apr 2019

A foster kid gains the power to become an adult superhero by shouting one word.

7 Feb 2020

Newly single Harley Quinn collides with a Gotham crime lord and unlikely allies.

25 Dec 2020

Diana confronts a wish-granting artifact and the cost of getting what you want.

18 Mar 2021

The four-hour director’s cut of the same events. Watch this instead of the 2017 version, not as well.

6 Aug 2021

James Gunn’s soft reboot sends a new expendable team to a South American island.

13 Jan 2022

Picking up right after The Suicide Squad, and the one DCEU story that stayed canon after the reboot.

21 Oct 2022

An ancient antihero is freed after five thousand years and refuses to play by anyone’s rules.

17 Mar 2023

The Shazam family faces the vengeful daughters of Atlas.

16 Jun 2023

Barry Allen runs back in time to save his mother and shatters the timeline doing it.

18 Aug 2023

Jaime Reyes bonds with an alien scarab that chooses him as its host.

20 Dec 2023

The final DCEU film; Arthur allies with his imprisoned brother against an old weapon.

4 Oct 2019

A failing comedian in 1981 Gotham slides toward the identity that will define him.

4 Oct 2024

Arthur Fleck awaits trial at Arkham and meets a fellow inmate who believes in the myth.

4 Mar 2022

A second-year Batman works a serial killer case that indicts Gotham itself.

19 Sept 2024

Oz Cobb climbs Gotham’s criminal ladder in the flooded week after The Batman.

1 Oct 2027

Matt Reeves continues his Gotham, still walled off from every other DC continuity.

5 Dec 2024

The animated series that formally opens the new DC Universe: a squad of monsters on a deniable mission.

11 Jul 2025

James Gunn’s reboot drops us into a world that already has heroes, and a Superman under public scrutiny.

21 Aug 2025

Chris Smith returns, bridging the old continuity into the rebooted DCU.

26 Jun 2026

Kara Zor-El, who remembers Krypton dying, takes a grieving girl on an interstellar hunt for revenge.

16 Aug 2026

Hal Jordan and rookie John Stewart work a murder in the American heartland. A small-town mystery with a cosmic floor.

23 Oct 2026

A struggling actor takes a treatment that rots his body into something he cannot control. DCU horror, set before Superman.

2027

Confirmed for 2027 and already in animation, continuing the squad Gunn opened the DCU with.

9 Jul 2027

Gunn’s Superman sequel forces Clark and Lex Luthor into an alliance against Brainiac.

TBA

The DCU’s own Batman film, introducing Damian Wayne as Robin. Announced, but still undated.

TBA

A Themyscira-set political drama predating Wonder Woman. Announced early, and still waiting on a script.