Shaft watch order
There are 3 Shaft films, about 5.3 hours in total. The first was released in 1971, the latest in 1973. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.
- 1
Shaft (1971)
25 Jun 1971 · 100 min
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
- 2
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
21 Jun 1972 · 105 min
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
- 3
Shaft in Africa (1973)
20 Jun 1973 · 112 min
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.