Mission: Impossible in order

Mission: Impossible is a series of a secret agent thriller films based on the popular 1966–73 television series. They chronicle the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) under the leadership of agent Ethan Hunt. 8 films, 18h 25m in all, in release order.

Mission: Impossible
1996 · 111 min
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.
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Mission: Impossible II
2000 · 123 min
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.
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Mission: Impossible III
2006 · 126 min
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.
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011 · 133 min
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.
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 · 131 min
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.
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018 · 147 min
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.
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2023 · 164 min
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.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · 170 min
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. Joined 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.
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Frequently asked questions

What order should I watch Mission: Impossible in?

1. Mission: Impossible (1996), 2. Mission: Impossible II (2000), 3. Mission: Impossible III (2006), 4. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), 5. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), 6. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), 7. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), 8. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025).

How long does it take to watch all of Mission: Impossible?

About 18h 25m across 8 released films.

Do any Mission: Impossible films have post-credit scenes?

None are listed on TMDB.