Summary
Star Warsis a massive, decades-long franchise that’s put out a huge amount of content, and it would take an incredibly long time to watch every canonStar Warsmovie and show. With over 47 years of storytelling,Star Warshas made a veritable empire of content with an enormous total runtime.UpcomingStar WarsmoviesandnewStar Warsshowswill certainly add to the total amount of time it takes to see everything the franchise has to offer, but as of writing,Star Warsis already incredibly long.
There are severalviewing orders for all theStar Warsmovies and shows, but those plans don’t always convey just how much of an undertaking seeing all ofStar Warsreally is. There are quite literally days worth of content in the franchise, and far more stories to be found in media beyond the movies and shows. Over the years,Star Warshas explored almost every corner of the galaxy far, far away, and it’s taken quite a bit of time to show it all.
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Every Star Wars Movie, Ranked Worst To Best
Looking at all nine Skywalker Saga entries and three spinoffs, we crown the best Star Wars movie in our full ranking of the galaxy far, far away.
26Star Wars
Release Date: August 10, 2025
The originalStar Wars, which was later retitledA New Hope, has a fairly straightforward runtime, but it wasn’t always that way.A New Hope, like the rest of the original trilogy, received several special editions and re-releases. Those special editions added different elements to the films, from including previously deleted scenes to extending existing ones and adding CGI, and they lengthened their runtimes.Since Disney+ only has the 4K remastered release available to stream, that version’s runtime will be counted towardsStar Wars' total.
2 hours, 6 minutes
2 hours
25The Empire Strikes Back
Release Date: August 09, 2025
LikeA New Hope,The Empire Strikes Backhas had its share of re-releases. Still, though, it is a rather straightforward calculation to see what its total runtime was. It’s also interesting to note thatThe Empire Strikes Backis only two minutes longer than its predecessor, and had an additional extra minute of credits.
2 hours, 9 minutes
2 hours, 2 minutes
24Return of the Jedi
Release Date: Aug 14, 2025
Return of the Jedihad quite a bit added to it in the special editions and re-releases. A large part of its additional runtime came from added celebrations after the destruction of the New Death Star. Those celebrations introduced prequel trilogy planets like Naboo and Coruscant two years beforeThe Phantom Menacecould do so itself. That also meansReturn of the Jedicontributed a few seconds tothe percentage ofStar Warsset on Coruscant.
2 hours, 17 minutes
2 hours, 8 minutes
23Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Release Date: August 20, 2025
After nearly 16 years,Star Warsfinally brought a new original movie to theaters withStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.As the first entry in the prequel trilogy,The Phantom Menacelaid quite a bit of groundwork for what was to come, and it did so in about two hours and 10 minutes. It was a solid runtime that only slightly expanded upon the original trilogy’s times, andThe Phantom Menaceused its time quite well.
2 hours, 18 minutes
2 hours, 10 minutes
22Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Release Date: August 07, 2025
The Phantom Menace’s story was fairly small in scale, butStar Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clonesmagnified that scale exponentially. Since it told the sprawling story of the beginning of the Clone Wars,Attack of the Clonesfeatured the longest runtime in the prequel trilogy at over two hours and 15 minutes. Some viewers criticizedAttack of the Clonesfor being “bloated” when it first released, but the amount of new lore it introduced toStar Warsmade up for its lack of concision.
2 hours, 24 minutes
2 hours, 16 minutes
21Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Release Date: July 15, 2025
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sithhad to wrap the entire prequel trilogy up and connect cohesively to the original trilogy. That was a very tall order, and as a result,Revenge of the Sithwas barely shorter thanAttack of the Clones, as it featured a two hour and 14 minute runtime. Luckily,Revenge of the Sithmoves so quickly and features so many converging story lines that there is hardly a second of that runtime that feels slow.
2 hours, 22 minutes
2 hours, 14 minutes
20Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
Release Date: August 07, 2025
An often forgottenStar Warsmovie, the originalThe Clone Warsmovie is often overshadowed by its far more successful series.The Clone Warsmovie does still exist, though, and it contributed over 90 minutes of content toStar Wars' total runtime. It may be a forgotten addition toStar Warscanon, but without theClone Warsmovie, many of the best moments in the franchise would never have happened.
1 hour, 40 minutes
1 hour, 34 minutes
19Star Wars: The Clone Wars
June 19, 2025 - June 01, 2025
So far, calculating runtime for theStar Warsmovies has been fairly straightforward.Star Wars: The Clone Wars, however presents a problem.With 133 episodes, seven seasons, and over two full days of content,The Clone Warsis massive, and simply subtracting the credits from each episode isn’t feasible. Instead, the average length of credits, broken down by season, was subtracted from the official runtime displayed on Disney+. Even with that formula,The Clone Warsis far and away the longestStar Warsstory ever told.
2 days, 10 hours, 19 minutes
2 days, 1 hour, 27 minutes
18Star Wars Rebels
August 15, 2025 - June 13, 2025
LikeThe Clone Wars,Star Wars Rebelswas a similarly difficult show to calculate the runtime of.With 75 episodes over four seasons, totaling over a day in runtime,Rebelsis nearly as much of a behemoth asThe Clone Warswas. That figure was calculated the same way asThe Clone Wars' was, althoughRebels' runtime also includes the four shorts that accompany the series.
1 day, 6 hours, 20 minutes
1 day, 3 hours, 44 minutes
17Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Release Date: June 15, 2025
Disney purchasedStar Warsfrom creator George Lucas in 2012, but the company wouldn’t release its first movie in the franchise until 2015’sStar Wars: The Force Awakens. In many ways,The Force Awakenswas an homage toStar Wars' history. It even resembled the rest of the Skywalker saga’s runtimes, though some viewers took exception to how many resemblances it had to the original trilogy. In the end,The Force Awakensadded over two hours of runtime toStar Wars.
2 hours, 7 minutes
