How to Watch the Jurassic Park Movies in Chronological Order

Jurassic Park, created done the imaginative penning of novelist Michael Crichton and the filmmaking magic of Steven Spielberg, was 1 of the astir beloved and palmy movies of the ‘90s. Two sequels and 2 decades later, the Jurassic World trilogy returned the franchise to relevance and, crossed 3 further movies, added $4 cardinal USD to its corporate container bureau haul.

With Jurassic World Rebirth hitting theaters successful July, we’ve created a usher to assistance you navigate the series’ story. Scroll down to find retired however to ticker the Jurassic Park movies successful order, by communicative chronologically oregon merchandise date.

How Many Jurassic Park Movies Are There?

There are six feature-length Jurassic movies — 3 Jurassic Park films and 3 Jurassic World films. Jurassic World Rebirth volition beryllium the seventh Jurassic Park film. The canon besides includes 2 abbreviated films and an animated Netflix series, which we’ve included successful the chronology below.

Jurassic Park Movies successful Chronological Order

These blurbs incorporate mild spoilers, including characters, settings, and wide crippled points.

1. Jurassic Park (1993)

The Jurassic Park chronology is mostly straightforward arsenic the diagnostic films’ merchandise bid lines up with their chronological bid — lone the abbreviated films and Netflix bid whitethorn necessitate a spot of guidance.

Jurassic Park adapts the Michael Chrichton caller of the aforesaid sanction and sets up the series’ communicative conceit: Dinosaurs person been cloned by extracting DNA from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved successful amber and a reckless entrepreneur (Richard Attenborough) is utilizing the clones to capable a taxable parkland connected the fictitious land Isla Nublar.

Paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and mathematician/chaotician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) get connected the land to measure the information of the park. They’re joined connected their circuit by Lex and Tim Murphy, the grandchildren of Jurassic Park laminitis John Hammond.

A tropical tempest lands connected the land and a saboteur kills the powerfulness to bargain firm secrets, resulting successful a deactivated information system. With the dinosaurs present unrestrained, the land circuit turns into a deadly flight ngo against velociraptors and a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Read IGN’s Jurassic Park review oregon preorder the 4K Edition of Jurrassic Park.

2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Set and released 4 years aft Jurassic Park, The Lost World brings backmost Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm and Attenborough’s John Hammond to prima alongside Julianne Moore’s paleontologist Sarah Harding.

The Lost World is acceptable connected a 2nd island, Isla Sorna, wherever Hammond besides cloned dinosaurs. The land was yet abandoned and the dinosaurs were near to fend for themselves. A powerfulness conflict for power of Hammnod’s company, InGen, leads 2 opposing factions to Isla Sorna.

One faction, led by Hammond’s nephew Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard), wants to again effort exploiting the dinosaurs for profit, portion Hammond, Malcolm, and Harding purpose to crook the land into a quality sphere wherever the creatures tin beryllium studied distant from quality interference.

The 2 sides conflict against the backdrop of uncaged, territorial dinosaurs, erstwhile again resulting successful frenetic pursuit sequences and occasional death. The exploiters are palmy successful capturing a T-Rex to transport to a caller parkland successful San Diego, which escapes captivity and wreaks havoc connected the city. Malcolm and Harding effort to seizure it nonlethally.

Read IGN’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park review.

3. Jurassic Park 3 (2001)

Sam Neill reprises his relation arsenic Alan Grant for the series’ 3rd film, with Laura Dern’s Ellie Sattler returning arsenic well, albeit for a overmuch smaller role. Another 4 years person passed betwixt The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3 — some successful the existent satellite and in-universe chronology.

Jurassic Park 3 is erstwhile again acceptable connected Isla Sorna, wherever a antheral and a lad person gone missing. Grant, successful request of wealth for his continued dinosaur research, accepts to springiness a chopper circuit of the land successful speech for funding. We larn the circuit is really a rescue ngo chartered by the missing boy’s parents.

As expected, the dinosaurs invited the humans with hostility. The radical is pitted against a battalion of velociraptors, which they indispensable outsmart and outmaneuver portion searching for the missing persons. Grant yet contacts Settler to coordinate a rescue mission.

The extremity of Jurassic Park 3 began a 14-year hiatus for the franchise.

Read IGN’s Jurassic Park 3 review.

4. Jurassic World (2015)

Set and released 22 years aft the archetypal Jurassic Park, Jurassic World rapidly became 1 of the highest grossing movies of each clip aft it's release. The movie takes viewers backmost to Isla Nublar, wherever a caller dinosaur taxable parkland has opened. Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt arsenic carnal behavioralist/velociraptor trainer Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard arsenic Jurassic World operations manager Claire Dearing.

Claire’s 2 nephews task disconnected connected their ain to research the park, portion a genetically modified mega-dinosaur, the Indominus rex, escapes captivity. Claire and Owen task retired to prevention the boys arsenic the concern escalates and much dinosaurs articulation the fray.

With the boys safe, the enactment turns toward subduing the Indominus rex. Owen is tasked with confronting the beast with his trained velociraptors, which does not spell according to plan. The climax of the movie is an epic showdown betwixt the Indominus and a T-Rex. The surviving humans fly and the large dinosaur taxable parkland experimentation is erstwhile again shuttered.

Read IGN’s Jurassic World review.

4a. Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (TV Series - 2020)

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is simply a canonical, family-friendly animated Netflix series. It’s not indispensable viewing but we’re including it for those who privation the implicit Jurassic Park experience.

Camp Cretaceous ran for 5 seasons and takes spot during the events of the Jurassic World trilogy. The amusement follows six kids who be Camp Cretaceous connected Isla Nublar. The dinosaurs interruption escaped and the kids are near to past connected their own.

The amusement offers tons of references and connections to the films passim — galore of which person been chronicled by SYFY. Overall, Camp Cretaceous is little astir moving the wide Jurassic World crippled guardant and much astir experiencing the trilogy’s events from a antithetic perspective.

Read IGN’s Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous review.

5. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

As you whitethorn person noticed by now, the real-life clip gaps betwixt Jurassic films aligns with the in-universe clip gaps. As such, Falling Kingdom is acceptable 3 years aft Jurassic World. Fallen Kingdom continues to research the dangers of exploiting dinosaurs for the involvement of profit. Jeff Goldblum reprises his relation arsenic Ian Malcolm.

A volcanic eruption threatens the lives of the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar. Malcolm promotes correcting for the unnatural instauration of present-day dinosaurs by letting them dice successful the eruption; Claire Dearing lobbies to prevention the creatures done her Dinosaur Protection Group. When the U.S. Senate votes to fto the dinosaurs die, Claire teams up with Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) to prevention them. She recruits Owen Grady to enactment the cause.

We larn of ulterior motives wrong the rescue radical and observe the series’ cloning exertion has not been constricted to dinosaurs. The movie ends with galore of the dinosaurs acceptable escaped and humanity entering a caller epoch – 1 successful which the 2 taxon indispensable co-exist.

Read IGN’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom review.

6. Battle astatine Big Rock (Short Film - 2019)

Co-written and directed by Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow, Battle astatine Big Rock is simply a 10-minute abbreviated movie acceptable betwixt Fallen Kingdom and Dominion, specifically 1 twelvemonth aft Fallen Kingdom. It shows the archetypal large confrontation betwixt dinosaurs and humans pursuing the events of Fallen Kingdom.

The 10-minute abbreviated ends with clips of different aboriginal human-dinosaur encounters.

7. Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (TV Series - 2024)

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is simply a sequel to the franchise's erstwhile Netflix animated series, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. Chaos Theory reunites Camp Cretaceous's "Nublar Six” for a mystery-thriller acceptable six years aft their acquisition connected Isla Nublar, placing it conscionable earlier Jurassic World Dominion connected the franchise timeline.

Read IGN's Jurassic World: Chaos Theory review.

8. Jurassic World Dominion: The Prologue (Short Film - 2021)

Originally changeable arsenic the opening of Jurassic World Dominion, The Prologue is simply a five-minute abbreviated that was edited retired and made into an IMAX preview. It’s present disposable to presumption online arsenic a standalone abbreviated movie oregon arsenic portion of the Jurassic World Dominion extended edition.

The abbreviated opens 65 cardinal years ago, showing creatures of the Cretaceous. A Giganotosaurus does conflict with a T-Rex, and the loser has its humor sucked by a mosquito…. The backmost fractional of the abbreviated is acceptable successful the contiguous day, wherever a chopper pursues a escaped T-Rex astatine a drive-in movie theater.

9. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

Dominion explores the premise acceptable up by Fallen Kingdom: A satellite successful which humans and dinosaurs co-exist. It’s acceptable 4 years aft Fallen Kingdom and unites the astir recognizable characters from the franchise’s 2 trilogies: Owen Grady (Pratt), Claire Dearing (Howard), Ian Malcolm (Goldblum), Alan Grant (Neill), and Ellie Sattler (Dern).

The integration of dinosaurs into quality had large ecological effects and led to large ethical dilemmas. Claire and Owen enactment connected behalf of the dinosaurs’ well-being, portion genetics institution Biosyn exploits the animals for profit. Elsewhere, elephantine locusts are destroying crops crossed the U.S. Ellie and Alan enactment unneurotic to find the locusts’ nexus to Biosyn.

Read IGN’s Jurassic World Dominion review.

How to Watch the Jurassic Park Movies By Release Date

• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Jurassic Park 3 (2001)
• Jurassic World (2015)
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
• Battle astatine Big Rock (2019 – abbreviated film)
• Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020 – TV series)
• Jurassic World Dominion: The Prologue (2021 – abbreviated film)
• Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024 - TV series)

Future Jurassic Park Movies

Next up for the franchise is Jurassic World Rebirth, releasing successful theaters July 2. Rebirth is acceptable 5 years aft the events of Dominion and follows a squad “racing to unafraid DNA samples from the 3 astir colossal creatures crossed land, sea, and air.” Recent trailers person revealed immoderate of the caller mutant dinosaurs the caller movie volition feature.

The movie is directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla) and stars Scarlett Johansson arsenic covert operations adept Zora Bennett, Mahershala Ali arsenic squad person Duncan Kincaid, and Jonathan Bailey arsenic paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis. Rumor has it the newest movie besides takes immoderate inspiration from the archetypal Jurassic Park novel.

Jordan covers games, shows, and movies arsenic a freelance writer for IGN.