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How to Watch Terminator Movies in Order of EVENT [Chronologically and By Release Date]

Terminator Movies in Order: “I’ll be back!” Seeking for the series of science-fiction films about the futuristic conflict between the humans led by John Connor and the Terminators that are made and controlled by Skynet, a self-aware super computer that started Armageddon and may indeed end humanity for good. Skynet’s most well-known products in its genocidal goals are the various terminator models, such as the T-800 (Model 101). Here is the list of Terminator Movies in Order of release and the event of the story that will offer you blazing, solid performances, and a compelling story … Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast in a machine-like portrayal that requires only a few lines of dialog. So to understand the full story you can watch Terminator movies in order of timeline by following the below guide list.

How to Watch Terminator Movies in Chronological Order

The Terminator Chronological order Chart

Watching movies in chronological order gives another level of experience of the whole series. Through its branching timelines and reboots, the Terminator franchise have confused the once simple timeline. The Terminator film series is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence that is Skynet.

Here are the Terminator Movies in Chronological order, considering the “Judgment day” in this franchise. Judgment Day is when Skynet realizes its existence, and its creators attempt to deactivate it. Skynet sees humans as a threat and decides to eliminate them. Skynet launched an aggressive nuclear attack against Russia to provoke a counter-strike by the United States. This will ensure that its human enemies are destroyed. Multiple dates for Judgment Day are possible due to the ability to travel in time and alter the future.


The Terminator Original continuity

In Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor states that Judgment Day will occur on August 29, 1997. This date is later delayed due to Cyberdyne Systems’ attack in the second movie. Judgment Day is a complex series of dates that are set in various timelines. In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Terminator Salvation (2009), Judgment Day was postponed to July 2003.


1. The Terminator

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

3. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

4. Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series

5. Terminator Salvation

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The first installment in the Terminator franchise, The Terminator follows a total war between Skynet’s synthetic intelligence – a self-aware military machine network – and John Connor’s Resistance forces comprising the survivors of the human race. In the film, robots take over the world in the near future, directed by the artificial intelligence Skynet. With its sole mission to completely annihilate humanity, it develops android assassins called Terminators that outwardly appear human. A man named John Connor starts the Tech-Com resistance to fight the machines, defeat Skynet, and free humanity. With a human victory imminent, the machines’ only choice is to send a Terminator back in time to kill John’s mother, Sarah Connor, and prevent the boy’s birth, thereby handicapping the resistance from ever being founded in the first place.

Over 10 years have passed since the first machine called The Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John, the sequel to the 1984 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day follows Sarah Connor and her ten-year-old son John as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator: the liquidic metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human resistance. A second, less advanced Terminator model T-800 which dominated the original film, is also sent by the Resistance to protect John. Together, the threesome must find a way to stop the ultimate enemy-the T-1000, the most lethal Terminator ever created.

T2″ grossed $204+ million, and now Golden Globe-winner Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in the highly anticipated third chapter in the blockbuster franchise, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines directed by Jonathon Mostow, follows the war between Skynet’s synthetic intelligence and John Connor. Eight years ago, the machines who rule the future sent an unstoppable Terminator to assassinate the young John Connor. They failed. Now, Skynet sent back a new Terminator, the T-X, to terminate the lives of as many of John Connor’s future lieutenants as is possible, including his future wife Kate Brewster, and also John himself. John’s life is placed in danger when the T-X finds him. But a new T-800 unit Terminator sent back through time will guide him through the coming battle and protect John and Kate.

Set in 2016, Taking place between the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation, years after Judgment Day, Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series follows Blair Williams, who is fighting the war against the machines in downtown Los Angeles, while tracking down the computer hacker Laz Howard and trying to persuade him to join sides with the resistance.

Judgment Day has come and gone. The fourth installment in the Terminator franchise, Terminator Salvation serves as both a sequel to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and a prequel to The Terminator (1984), which focuses on the war between Skynet’s machine network and humanity.

In the film, an army of Terminators roams the post-apocalyptic landscape, killing or collecting humans where they hide. But small groups of survivors have organized into a Resistance, hiding in underground bunkers and striking when they can against an enemy force that vastly outnumbers them. Only one man saw Judgment Day coming, a man whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of human existence: John Connor. But something totally new has shaken Connor’s belief that humanity has a chance of winning this war: the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger from the past whose last memory is of being on death row before awakening in this strange, new world. If humanity is to survive, Connor must decide whether Marcus can be trusted, and the two must find common ground to make a stand against the onslaught and meet the enemy head-on.

 


The Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles continuity

In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009), the attack on Cyberdyne Systems in the second film delayed Judgment Day to April 21, 2011.


1. The Terminator

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

3. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a spin-off from the Terminator series of films. It revolves around the lives of the fictional characters Sarah and John Connor, disregarding the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and picking up shortly after Terminator 2: Judgment Day left off.

looking to the back story, in the year 1995 (1997 in the show), at the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor, her son John and the 800-series Terminator successfully destroy the T-1000, as well as the arm and CPU chip from the Terminator sent back to 1984 in the first film. The T-800 from the second film, at its own request, is then also destroyed to eliminate any future technology that could be used to create Skynet through reverse engineering. Despite this, at the beginning of the television series, a T-888 using the name “Cromartie” is sent back to 1999 to kill John. “Cameron”, a Terminator that John sent back from 2029 to protect his younger self, leaps forward in time with John and Sarah to 2007 to prevent a delayed Judgment Day once and for all. Now wanted fugitives with the fear of pending leukemia preying on Sarah’s mind, they must also face the reality that other enemies from the future could be after them.

Four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah vanquished the Terminator sent from the future to kill her teenage son, John. Sarah and John now find themselves alone in a very dangerous, complicated world. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that still more enemies from the future, and the present, could attack at any moment. The Sarah Connor Chronicles reveals what happens when Sarah (Lena Headey) stops running and goes on the offensive against an ever-evolving technological enemy bent on destroying her life, and perhaps the world. Her son, 15-year-old John Connor (Thomas Dekker), knows that he may be the future savior of mankind, but is not yet ready to take on the mantle of leadership that he’s told is his destiny. John finds himself inextricably drawn to Cameron (Summer Glau), an enigmatic and otherworldly student at his high school, who soon proves to be much more than his confidante. She assumes the role of Sarah and John’s fearless protector. On their trail are not only threats from the future, but an intelligent and tough FBI agent, James Ellison (Richard T. Jones), who soon becomes a powerful ally.

 


The Terminator Dark Fate continuity

In Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), the direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a date is not given for the new Judgment Day though it is named as such by Grace. As Grace is a ten–year old in 2020 and shown as a teenager in the post-Judgment Day world in flash-forwards throughout the movie, Judgment Day occurs sometime in the early 2020s in this timeline.


1. The Terminator

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

3. Terminator: Dark Fate

The sixth installment in the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate a sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), disregarding the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), and Terminator Genisys (2015), following the return of creative control to Cameron.

Decades have been passed since Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, changed the future, and re-wrote the fate of the human race. Set 25 years after the events of Terminator 2, the film sees Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes), who is living a simple life in Mexico City with her brother (Diego Boneta) and father when a highly advanced and deadly new Terminator – a Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna) – travels back through time to hunt and kill her. Dani’s survival depends on her joining forces with two warriors: Grace (Mackenzie Davis), an enhanced super-soldier from the future, and a battle-hardened Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). As the Rev-9 ruthlessly destroys everything and everyone in its path on the hunt for Dani, the three are led to a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from Sarah’s past that may be their last best hope.

 


The Terminator Reboot continuity

In Terminator Genisys (2015), the fifth film in the franchise, Judgment Day was postponed to an unspecified day in October 2017, attributed to altered events in both the future and the past. Sarah and Kyle Reese travel through time to the year 2017 and seemingly defeat Skynet but the system core, contained inside a subterranean blast shelter, survives unknown to them, thus further delaying, rather than preventing, Judgment Day.


1. Terminator Genisys

The fifth installment in the Terminator franchise, Terminator Genisys is a reboot of the Terminator franchise, taking the basic story of the original film in another direction.

The film takes place in an alternate reality resulting from a chain of events related to Skynet’s actions throughout a previous timeline. Prior to this alteration, on the verge of winning the war against Skynet, John Connor sends his trusted right-hand officer Kyle Reese back through time to save his mother’s life and ensure his own existence. However, Kyle arrives at an alternate timeline where Skynet had never launched its initial attack in 1997, and Sarah Connor was brought up by a reprogrammed Terminator, sent by an unknown party to be her guardian ever since childhood. Now Sarah, Kyle, and the Guardian need to escape the T-800 Model 101 (Brett Azar with CG-rendered likeness of Schwarzenegger from the first film), the T-1000, and Skynet’s T-3000, in an attempt to stop Judgment Day from ever happening; while trying to uncover the secrets behind Cyberdyne Systems’ new application software: Genisys. Assisting the trio is Detective O’Brien, whose investigation into time travelers leads him to learn about Skynet, and helps the protagonists in their mission to avert Judgment Day.

 


The Terminator Battle Across Time continuity


1. The Terminator

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

3. T2-3D: Battle Across Time

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Flash forward to the future to the chilling, machine-controlled world of the Terminator. T2-3D: Battle Across Time (also known as Terminator 2: 3D and stylized as T2 3-D) is an attraction at Universal Studios Japan, with former locations at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando.

The attraction is a mini-sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and reunites director James Cameron and the main cast from the movie, including Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Edward Furlong as John Connor, and Robert Patrick as the T-1000. The show was presented in two parts; a pre-show where a Cyberdyne Systems company hostess shows guests a brief video presentation about the company’s innovations, and the main show, where live performers interact with a 3D film.

The ground breaking sound design for the theater set new standards and created new technologies in the design and delivery of fully immersive 3D sound. The main show sound system is a 24 channel matrix surround system driven by a Peavey Media Matrix, an Akai DD1000 digital 24 Track, 156 speakers, 24 custom engineered subwoofers that shook the building. James Cameron was quoted as saying, “Sound is 50% of the experience. T23D is the greatest sounding show in the world”.

 


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How many Terminator Movies are there?

The Terminator film series consists of a total of SIX (6) movies that began in 1984’s The Terminator and concluded with Terminator: Dark Fate being the latest addition to the action in 2019.

 

All Terminator Movies in Order of Release Date

Here is the list of The Terminator films in order of release:

1. The Terminator — October 26, 1984

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day — July 3, 1991

3. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines — July 2, 2003

4. Terminator Salvation — May 21, 2009

5. Terminator Genisys — July 1, 2015

6. Terminator: Dark Fate —  November 1, 2019

 

Where to watch Terminator Movies Order?

You are able to stream the Terminator series in order by renting or purchasing on Amazon Prime because it is pretty much solely available to watch on Amazon Prime, you may be able to Rent and buy on Vudu.

 

Any Upcoming Terminator Movies?

In December 2022, James Cameron revealed there were discussions for another possible Terminator film. Cameron has stated if any new Terminator film is made that it may be a reboot of the franchise with no returning cast members from previous installments.

 


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