How to watch the Top Gun films in order
There are 2 Top Gun films, about 4 hours in total. The first was released in 1986, the latest in 2022. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
Top Gun is an American action drama multimedia franchise based on the 1983 article "Top Guns" by Ehud Yonay, which was adapted into the eponymous 1986 film, written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.
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Top Gun (1986)
16 May 1986 · 110 min
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
21 May 2022 · 131 min
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.