How to Watch Mad Max in Order

There are 5 films in the Mad Max franchise. Below is the full list in release-date order — the simplest way to watch. For some franchises the in-universe chronological order differs; where it does, we note it.

The Mad Max series follows Max Rockatansky across George Miller's post-apocalyptic wasteland, from the 1979 original to Fury Road and Furiosa.

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   Mad Max (1979) April 12, 1979

   In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

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   Mad Max 2 (1981) December 24, 1981

   Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the biza…

3. 3
   Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) June 29, 1985

   Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

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   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) May 13, 2015

   An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just m…

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   Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) May 22, 2024

   As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. …

Film lists and dates come from TMDB. “In order” here means release-date order; a franchise's in-universe timeline can differ. NewsGiga links only to legitimate sources and never to pirated content.