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Indiana Jones

Five films, one of which is a prequel because the caption says so, and a series nobody knows how to count.

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Where to start with Indiana Jones

Release order is the right way in even though it is not the order these happen, because the second film is a prequel by one year and swapping it to the front costs you the introduction to the character.

  1. 1
    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Captioned 1936, and written as the first thing you see of this man. It is also the best of the five by most accounts, so there is no argument for saving it.

  2. 2
    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Captioned 1935, which makes it a prequel by a year, and much darker than either film around it. It shares no characters with Raiders other than Indy.

  3. 3
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Captioned 1938, and it opens on a 1912 prologue that is the only place the films show him young. It is the one that finally explains the hat and the scar.

Then what? Then Crystal Skull in 1957 and Dial of Destiny in 1969, which are set nineteen and thirty-one years after Last Crusade and both play that gap deliberately. Young Indiana Jones covers 1908 to 1922 and sits before all of it, but it is a different kind of show entirely and works better as a separate track than spliced in.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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