How to Watch the Pirates of the Caribbean Movies in Chronological Order

All of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies are streaming connected Disney+, which starts astatine $9.99 arsenic a standalone subscription and tin besides beryllium bundled with Hulu, Max, and ESPN+. If you're not funny successful different streaming subscripion, the Pirates movies are besides disposable arsenic carnal releases.

Pirates of the Caribbean successful Chronological Order

These blurbs incorporate mild spoilers, including characters, settings, and wide crippled points.

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code – Wedlocked (2011)

Released betwixt the 4th and 5th movies arsenic portion of a Pirates Blu-ray/DVD container set, Tales of the Code – Wedlocked is simply a abbreviated movie acceptable earlier The Curse of the Black Pearl. Vanessa Branch and Lauren Maher reprise their roles arsenic Giselle and Scarlett for the short, which centers astir the 2 women some believing themselves to beryllium betrothed to Jack Sparrow. Alas, they were fooled, and the duo becomes the entity of a rowdy auction.

It's not indispensable to the wider chronology, though if you're looking for the implicit Pirates experience, it's an casual ticker with a 10-minute runtime.

2. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

From this constituent on, the merchandise day and communicative chronologies of the Pirates movies align. The Curse of the Black Pearl, the series’ archetypal movie, takes viewers backmost to the aboriginal 18th period during the Golden Age of Piracy. The debut movie introduces america to the series' main characters: Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), and Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush).

A young Will Turner is rescued from a shipwreck with a golden medallion astir his neck. The medallion is linked to a curse that afflicts the pirate unit of Jack Sparrow's erstwhile ship, the Black Pearl, with tortured immortality. The unit is present led by the mutinous Captain Barbossa.

Will and Jack acceptable speech their differences to rescue Elizabeth Swann, who was taken by Barbossa on with the medallion. Jack’s allegiance flip-flops and past flips again. The trio survives the brushwood and yet lifts the curse, though the movie ends with Jack wanted for piracy.

Read IGN’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl review.

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

Jack, Will, and Elizabeth instrumentality for different seafaring escapade successful Dead Man’s Chest. The series’ 2nd movie introduces Naomie Harris’s priestess Tia Dalma, Stellan Skarsgard’s Bill Turner (Will’s father), Tom Hollander’s Cutler Beckett, and Bill Nighy’s Davy Jones, skipper of the Flying Dutchman shade ship.

Jack, Will, Elizabeth, and James Norrington (Jack Davenport) all, with antithetic motivations, acceptable retired to find the Dead Man’s Chest and Davy Jones’s bosom within: Will seeks state from the instrumentality and for his father; Elizabeth seeks state for herself and Will; Jack seeks to flight his indebtedness to Davy Jones; and James seeks to person his presumption arsenic a navy serviceman restored.

Swashbuckling and backstabbing erstwhile again ensue, and lone 1 escapes with Davy Jones’s heart, granting them power of Jones and truthful the seas. As for Captain Jack, helium ends Dead Man’s Chest dragged to the depths of the oversea by the Kraken. Tia Dalma, meanwhile, resurrects a acquainted foe from Black Pearl to pb the rescue ngo for Jack.

Read IGN’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest review.

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

The 3rd Pirates movie is an action-packed escapade that pits the franchise’s heroes against Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman, present controlled by Cutler Beckett. The heroes archetypal squad up to rescue Jack from Davy Jones’s Locker and retrieve the Black Pearl. After doing so, the crew’s varying motivations pb to the accustomed plotting and backstabbing. Along the way, we observe Tia’s existent individuality and conscionable Jack’s father, the pirate skipper Edward Teague (Keith Richards).

By the end, Elizabeth comes into power, Will and Jack decision Davy Jones, and a caller skipper takes power of the Flying Dutchman. A large Elizabeth and Will portion ways, portion Jack and the revived Hector Barbossa acceptable retired separately to observe the Fountain of Youth.

Read IGN’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End review.

5. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

On Stranger Tides is the archetypal Pirates movie without Will/Orlando Bloom and Elizabeth/Keira Knightley. Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz stepped into the vacant supporting roles arsenic the father-daughter duo Angelica and Blackbeard — the erstwhile being an ex-lover of Jack Sparrow.

The film’s overarching crippled is simply a contention to observe the Fountain of Youth betwixt the English, Spanish, and aggregate pirate crews. A treasure hunt involving concealed maps, Mermaid tears, and the vessel of renowned Spanish explorer Ponce de León yet leads each enactment to the Fountain. Barbossa settles an aged people with Blackbeard and Jack uses the past of the Fountain’s powerfulness to prevention an ally.

Read IGN’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides review.

6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

The astir caller Pirates movie sees the instrumentality of Jack and Barbossa alongside Henry Turner (the now-grown lad of Elizabeth and Will, played by Brenton Thwaites) and a caller antagonist successful Javier Bardem’s undead pirate-hunter Armando Salazar. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reprise their respective roles arsenic Will and Elizabeth for cameo appearances.

Dead Men Tell No Tales features different treasure hunt, the entity of which is the Trident of Poseidon. Henry seeks the Trident to escaped his begetter from a curse and teams up with Jack and newcomer Carina (Kaya Scodelario) to bash so. The trio, yet with the assistance of Barbossa, indispensable flooded Salazar’s opposition. One of these 4 heroes dies on the way. Jack takes his rightful spot backmost aboard the Black Pearl and the different surviving heroes bask a household reunion.

A post-credits country past sets up the instrumentality of Davy Jones.

Read IGN’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales review.

How to Watch the Pirates of the Caribbean Movies By Release Date

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code – Wedlocked (2011 – abbreviated film)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

Future Pirates of the Caribbean Movies

There person been 2 aboriginal Pirates of the Caribbean movies successful discussion: the sixth mainline movie and a Margot Robbie-led spinoff. Unfortunately, the Margot Robbie task seems to beryllium dormant successful the water, but a sixth Pirates movie is surely connected the way.

The adjacent mainline movie was expected to beryllium a due reboot, though franchise prima Johnny Depp is erstwhile again said to beryllium successful the mix, truthful we'll person to hold and spot astir the actor's imaginable engagement and its interaction connected the film's direction. According to a Variety study published successful December, 2 versions of the publication are being developed, "one that could bring Depp backmost into the fold if the histrion and Disney tin reconcile."

Franchise shaper Jerry Bruckheimer seemed to corroborate astatine slightest immoderate of the returning cast, with Orlando Bloom saying successful an interrogation earlier this period that "I deliberation they're trying to enactment retired what it would each look like... I personally deliberation it'd beryllium large to get the set backmost together."

Jordan covers games, shows, and movies arsenic a freelance writer for IGN.

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Jun 18, 2025 2:59 pm