Here’s how you watch all eight Harry Potter movies and Fantastic Beasts in chronological and release order.
Want to watch the Harry Potter movies in order in 2021? The Harry Potter films have remained firm favorites since the final movie was released back in 2011 – that’s because JK Rowling’s books about the boy wizard are evergreen reading for kids, and that the iconography has become a part of the wider pop culture landscape, from theme parks to video games. The Harry Potter movies, meanwhile, remain a mostly faithful and enjoyable way to ingest the story of the series. While they arguably get a little too dark later on, reflected in changes in visual style to remove some of the charm from its setting, the first three in particular form a great arc. While movies one and two are like Spielberg-style kids’ films, the third is moodier but more dramatically satisfying. As a collective, they make for a great binge-watching experience. But how do you watch the Harry Potter movies in order, both chronologically and in the way they were originally released? Below, we’ve got you covered, and we’ll also explain where you can stream the Harry Potter films are the time of writing. Here’s how to watch the Harry Potter movies in chronological order – not including any movies yet to be released, such as the remaining Fantastic Beasts prequels. (The third instalment of that series, now titled The Secrets of Dumbledore, will be released in April 2022, and set some time in the two decades between 1927 and 1945.) We know that the Fantastic Beasts series will end with a duel between Albus Dumbledore and former BFF-turned-nemesis Gellert Grindelwald in 1945, but everything in between is currently a mystery. Below, we decided to just include everything Harry Potter-related that it’s possible to watch right now – including the stage play, The Cursed Child.
