How to watch the Die Hard films in order
There are 5 Die Hard films, about 10.2 hours in total. The first was released in 1988, the latest in 2013. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
An action film series centered around the character of John McClane, a New York City police detective who finds himself fighting a group of terrorists in each film.
- 1
Die Hard (1988)
15 Jul 1988 · 132 min
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.
- 2
Die Hard 2 (1990)
3 Jul 1990 · 124 min
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug
- 3
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
19 May 1995 · 128 min
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
- 4
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
20 Jun 2007 · 128 min
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
- 5
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
6 Feb 2013 · 98 min
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.