How to Train Your DragonComplete Watch Order Guide
This computer-animated action fantasy film series follows the adventures of a young Viking named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, son of Stoick the Vast, leader of the Viking island of Berk. Although initially dismissed as a clumsy and underweight misfit, he soon becomes renowned as a courageous expert in dragons, beginning with Toothless, a member of the rare Night Fury breed as his flying mount and his closest companion. Together with his friends, he manages the village's allied dragon population in defense of his home as leader of a flying corps of dragon riders. Upon becoming leaders of their kind, Hiccup and Toothless are forced to make choices that will truly ensure peace between people and dragons.
How to Train Your Dragon Release Timeline
What order should you watch the How to Train Your Dragon movies?
Release order — click any era to expand or collapse. All 3 released films shown below.
2 films released between 2010 and 2014.
1 film released between 2019 and 2019.
Watch How to Train Your Dragon in Order
Watch the How to Train Your Dragon movies in release order, starting with How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and continuing through How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). The series spans 3 films, released between 2010 and 2019. Audiences rate the franchise 7.8/10 on average.
What order should you watch How to Train Your Dragon?
For most viewers, release order is the recommended way to watch How to Train Your Dragon. This is how the story was crafted and revealed to audiences — earlier films seed details, callbacks, and twists that pay off in later entries. Watching in release order preserves those reveals and matches the pacing the filmmakers intended.
How to Train Your Dragon largely tracks its own in-universe chronology, so release order and chronological order overlap closely. You can use either without losing much, though release order is still the safest first watch.
About the How to Train Your Dragon franchise
This computer-animated action fantasy film series follows the adventures of a young Viking named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, son of Stoick the Vast, leader of the Viking island of Berk. Although initially dismissed as a clumsy and underweight misfit, he soon becomes renowned as a courageous expert in dragons, beginning with Toothless, a member of the rare Night Fury breed as his flying mount and his closest companion. Together with his friends, he manages the village's allied dragon population in defense of his home as leader of a flying corps of dragon riders. Upon becoming leaders of their kind, Hiccup and Toothless are forced to make choices that will truly ensure peace between people and dragons.
Each film builds on the previous one, rewarding viewers who watch in sequence.
How to Train Your Dragon by the Numbers
Every figure below is calculated from the full film list on this page.
- 3
- Films released
- 9
- Years running
- 7.8/10
- Average audience rating
- 7.9/10
- Highest rated
- 7.7/10
- Lowest rated
- 5 years
- Longest gap between films
How to Train Your Dragon has 3 released films, the first in 2010 and the most recent in 2019.
The series has been running for 9 years, from 2010 to 2019.
Across its 3 rated films, How to Train Your Dragon averages 7.8/10 on TMDB, from 32,644 audience ratings.
The highest-rated entry is How to Train Your Dragon (2010) at 7.9/10 on TMDB.
The lowest-rated entry is How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) at 7.7/10 on TMDB.
The longest gap between consecutive films is 5 years, between How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for How to Train Your Dragon, covering all 3 released films. Last recalculated September 2026.
How to Train Your Dragon Fun Facts & Trivia
The How to Train Your Dragon franchise spans 9 years, from 2010 to 2019.
The highest-rated entry is How to Train Your Dragon with a 7.9/10 audience score.
Across all films, the franchise averages a 7.8/10 rating from audiences.
How to Train Your Dragon films have collected over 33k audience ratings combined.
The most recent entry, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), continues a franchise that began 9 years earlier.
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