One direct to video banner holds two separate connected continuities and dozens of films that connect to nothing, and the cover art never tells you which one you are holding.
Do not start at the beginning of the banner. The first six years of it are unconnected one-offs, and the thing most people are actually looking for is one of the two connected runs. The DC Animated Movie Universe is the longer and the more rewarding of the two, so this path starts there, in story order rather than release order.
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The Flash rewrites history and creates the timeline that the next fifteen films take place in. Nothing before it in this continuity exists, which makes it a genuine ground floor.
The team meets for the first time in the new timeline. It is the film that establishes who these versions of these characters are, and every later entry assumes it.
Picks up directly from War and brings in Aquaman. It came out eleven months after Son of Batman but is set before it, which is the first place release order misleads you.
Introduces Damian Wayne, whose story runs through four more films. Watch it after Throne of Atlantis and the League's status quo lines up correctly.
A direct sequel to Son of Batman. From here the run mostly follows release order, so you can stop consulting a list.
The centre of the whole continuity and the reason the earlier films matter. It is the first half of a story that finishes in the next film, so do not stop here.
The last film of the continuity, and it is built entirely out of things established across the previous fifteen. Watched cold it is incomprehensible, watched in order it is the payoff.
Then what? Fill in the rest of the DC Animated Movie Universe group in the order shown, then watch the short Constantine: The House of Mystery, which is its epilogue. The Tomorrowverse is a completely separate second run and can be started at any time with Superman: Man of Tomorrow; it takes ten films and ends with the three part Crisis on Infinite Earths. Everything in the standalone group needs no preparation at all, and Batman: Under the Red Hood, All-Star Superman and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight are the usual recommendations for someone who wants one film rather than a project.
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