Where to Watch Every Mission: Impossible Movie In Order

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Keith Langston

Keith Langston

JustWatch Editor

Tom Cruise and the Mission: Impossible series is back with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning! If you want to watch (or re-watch) all of the previous M:I movies before watching The Final Reckoning in theaters, check out our streaming guide – which shows you how and where to watch every Mission: Impossible movie in order.

The Mission: Impossible film series is one of the longest-running action movie franchises of all time, with the first installment kicking off the franchise almost 30 years ago in 1996. The original Mission: Impossible, which was inspired by the TV show of the same name, centered around a team of elite spies. It grossed over $180 million at the box office, becoming a bonafide hit and kickstarting one of the most iconic action franchises.

Almost 30 years later, with the release of The Final Reckoning, there are now 8 Mission Impossible movies in the film series. At the time of writing, 2018’s Mission: Impossible - Fallout is still the franchise's biggest box office hit, which grossed a whopping $791 million globally. As the unstoppable Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise has starred in every movie in the franchise, which features many recurring characters such as William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames).

The most recent movie in the franchise, The Final Reckoning, follows on directly from the events of Dead Reckoning Part One, which focused on an AI entity that gained sentience, granting whichever governmental power owns it total control of the world. While plans for large franchises like Mission: Impossible are rarely set in stone, The Final Reckoning is intended to be the final movie in the franchise.

Where can I watch Mission: Impossible movies in order?

If you want to stream all of the Mission: Impossible movies in order, we've got you covered with a complete streaming guide. Here you'll find every entry to the Mission: Impossible film series in release order, and where to watch them all from the United States.

  1. Mission: Impossible

    Mission: Impossible

    1996

    # 1

    When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

  2. Mission: Impossible II

    Mission: Impossible II

    2000

    # 2

    With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

  3. Mission: Impossible III

    # 3

    Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

  4. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

    # 4

    Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

  5. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

    # 5

    Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.

  6. Mission: Impossible - Fallout

    # 6

    When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

  7. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    # 7

    Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.

  8. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    # 8

    Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. ed by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.