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How to watch the Marvel movies in order: chronological order.

  • Captain America: The First Avenger (takes place during WWII)
  • Captain Marvel (takes place in 1995)
  • Iron Man (takes place in 2010)
  • Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man)
  • The Incredible Hulk (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
  • Thor (takes place six months before Avengers)
  • The Avengers (takes place in 2012)
  • Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after The Avengers)
  • Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in 2014)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (after Guardians)
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (takes place in 2015)
  • Ant-Man (takes place in 2015)
  • Captain America: Civil War (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Black Widow
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (post-Civil War, pre-Infinity War)
  • Doctor Strange (takes place in 2016)
  • Black Panther (takes place in 2017)
  • Thor: Ragnarok (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (takes place in 2017)
  • Ant-Man and The Wasp (ambiguous, but fits nicely between IW and Endgame)
  • Avengers: Endgame (starts in 2017, finishes in 2022)
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (post-Endgame)
  • Eternals
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home
  • Hawkeye
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Thor: Love and Thunder
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
  • Captain America: Brave New World
  • Thunderbolts

Taken from techradar.com; follow the link for much more information; also, they regularly update this and other lists. I put this together because I was planning a Marvel marathon, and if you’re here because you’re planning a wedding, you might want a distraction along the way.

A Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) timeline is likely what you’re here for. Here’s how to watch the Marvel films in chronological order, which starts with the first Captain America movie and (currently) ends with Spider-Man: Far From Home.

It’s arguably worth watching the Marvel movies in this order because you’ll see important events play out as they’re supposed to in the MCU timeline. That way you’ll follow the Tesseract from WWII up until The Avengers assembled, and see Carol Danvers encountering Nick Fury in the ’90s, or see Steve and Bucky’s complete relationship play out.  

One Marvel fan calculated it takes 114 steps to watch the Marvel movies in the exact chronological order scene-by-scene, but this list is probably easier to comprehend. Here, then, is the chronological viewing order of the Marvel movies:

When 2020 and 2021 Marvel movies like Black Widow and The Eternals are finally released, along with canonical Disney Plus shows like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision, we’ll update this MCU timeline. Black Widow, for example, is definitely set after Captain America: Civil War, but with its release date delayed until November 2020, we’ve left it off for now.

Watch in release date order, the way you would have watched them if you where fo9llowing the official releases.

Watching the Marvel movies in release date order is a much easier blueprint to follow. You’ll kick things off with 2008’s Iron Man and end with X-Men 97 season 2, which was released in July 2026.

Here’s a quick but full rundown of every Marvel movie and TV series in order of the year they launched:

  • Iron Man (2008)
  • The Incredible Hulk (2008)
  • Iron Man 2 (2010)
  • Thor (2011)
  • Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
  • The Avengers (2012)
  • Iron Man 3 (2013)
  • Thor: The Dark World (2013)
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
  • Ant-Man (2015)
  • Captain America: Civil War (2016)
  • Doctor Strange (2016)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
  • Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
  • Black Panther (2018)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
  • Captain Marvel (2019)
  • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
  • WandaVision (TV show, 2021)
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV show, 2021)
  • Loki season 1 (TV show, 2021)
  • Black Widow (2021)
  • What If…? season 1 (TV show, 2021)
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
  • Eternals (2021)
  • Hawkeye (TV show, 2021)
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
  • Moon Knight (TV show, 2022)
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
  • Ms Marvel (TV show, 2022)
  • Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
  • I Am Groot (TV show, 2022)
  • She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV show, 2022)
  • Werewolf by Night (TV special, 2022)
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (TV special, 2022)
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
  • Secret Invasion (TV show, 2023)
  • Loki season 2 (TV show, 2023)
  • The Marvels (2023)
  • What If…? season 2 (TV show, 2023)
  • Echo (TV show, 2024)
  • X-Men 97 season 1 (TV show, 2024)
  • Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
  • Agatha All Along (TV show, 2024)
  • What If…? season 3 (TV show, 2024)
  • Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (TV show, 2025)
  • Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
  • Daredevil: Born Again season 1 (TV show, 2025)
  • Thunderbolts* (2025)
  • Ironheart (TV show, 2025)
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
  • Eyes of Wakanda (TV show, 2025)
  • Marvel Zombies (TV show, 2025)
  • Wonder Man (TV show, 2026)
  • Daredevil: Born Again season 2 (TV show, 2026)
  • The Punisher: One Last Kill (TV special, 2026)
  • X-Men 97 season 2 (TV show, 2026)

How to watch the X-Men movies and TV shows in order

Best for: diehard X-Men fans and/or those wanting to catch up on the mutants’ numerous movies and TV shows.

We already have a dedicated, in-depth guide on how to watch the X-Men movies in order. But, if you want a quick rundown of all 14 films and TV shows, here you go:

  • X-Men: The Animated Series (1992 — 1997)
  • X-Men (2000)
  • X-2: X-Men United (2003)
  • X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
  • X-Men: First Class (2011)
  • The Wolverine (2013)
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
  • Deadpool (2016)
  • X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
  • Logan (2017)
  • Legion (2017 — 2019)
  • Deadpool 2 (2018)
  • Dark Phoenix (2019)
  • The New Mutants (2020)
  • X-Men 97 season 1 (2024)
  • Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
  • X-Men 97 season 2 (2026)