
RELATED: MCU Timeline Explained: From Infinity Stones to Infinity War, Endgame, and Beyond The order of these lists also pulls heavily from our own comprehensive MCU timeline, which gets into the nitty-gritty of when every event happens in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And below that, we've got a rundown of how to watch the Marvel Disney Plus shows in order. Both are highly recommended and are the ideal ways to view this series if you’re in the mood to binge-watch a franchise. Below we’re offering two viewing options: the Marvel movies in order of chronological events, and the Marvel movies in order of when each film was released in theaters.


If you’re wondering how to watch the Marvel movies in order, we’ve got you covered. And some films take place in the far past. Some films take place worlds away but at the same time as events that are occurring on Earth. Of course this way of telling stories had been done in comics, but telling a serialized story across many, many films with diverse tones and characters was brand new, and continues to be a gold mine of compelling stories and characters.īut as the MCU has grown in quantity, it’s also grown in complexity. Marvel broke new ground with 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers, which brought together disparate heroes from their own individual movies ( Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Evans’ Captain America, and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor) into one team-up movie, before then splitting them off again into their own sequels.

So you’d be forgiven for being a little confused as to how, exactly, they all fit together and which order to watch them in. There are currently 25 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and counting, all of them taking place in the same universe and connected by characters, events, and settings.
