Star Wars Watch Order

25 May 1977

A farm boy on a desert world falls in with a smuggler, a princess and an old hermit with a lightsaber.

21 May 1980

The Rebellion is scattered and Luke seeks a teacher, in the film that made the saga serious.

25 May 1983

Luke faces his father and the Emperor as the Rebellion risks everything on one strike.

19 May 1999

A trade dispute, a young Anakin Skywalker, and the first move in a very long game.

16 May 2002

A secret army is discovered and the Republic slides into the war it was designed to lose.

19 May 2005

The Republic becomes the Empire, and Anakin becomes Darth Vader.

18 Dec 2015

Thirty years on, a scavenger and a defecting stormtrooper are pulled into a new war.

15 Dec 2017

Rey finds Luke Skywalker, and the Resistance runs out of places to hide.

20 Dec 2019

The Skywalker Saga closes as an old enemy returns.

15 Aug 2008

The animated feature that opens the Clone Wars series and introduces Ahsoka Tano.

16 Dec 2016

The crew who stole the Death Star plans, ending exactly where A New Hope begins.

25 May 2018

How Han Solo got the name, the ship and the Wookiee.

22 May 2026

The first Star Wars film since 2019, continuing Din Djarin and Grogu's story on the big screen.

28 May 2027

A standalone set roughly five years after The Rise of Skywalker, with an all-new cast and a stretch of the timeline no film has touched.

3 Oct 2008

Seven seasons across the war itself. The single biggest deepening of the prequel era.

3 Oct 2014

A small crew becomes a cell of the early Rebellion, five years before A New Hope.

4 May 2021

A squad of defective clones goes rogue in the first days of the Empire.

26 Oct 2022

Short animated pieces on Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku, spanning the prequel era.

12 Nov 2019

A bounty hunter takes a job he cannot finish, five years after the Empire fell.

30 Oct 2020

Din Djarin searches for the Jedi, and finds more of the old war than he expected.

29 Dec 2021

Boba Fett claims Jabba's territory. Two episodes are effectively Mandalorian season 2.5.

27 May 2022

Ten years after Revenge of the Sith, a broken Obi-Wan is pulled out of hiding.

21 Sept 2022

How an ordinary thief becomes a revolutionary; the most adult thing Star Wars has made.

1 Mar 2023

Din Djarin seeks redemption on Mandalore as the New Republic starts to wobble.

22 Aug 2023

Ahsoka Tano hunts a returning Imperial warlord. Assumes you have watched Rebels.

4 Jun 2024

A century before the prequels, at the height of the Jedi Order, the earliest story on screen.

2 Dec 2024

Four kids from a quiet planet get lost in the galaxy, in the same period as The Mandalorian.

22 Apr 2025

The final four years before Rogue One, ending precisely where that film opens.