Watch All Jurassic Park Movies in Order in US [Updated 2023]

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The Jurassic Park franchise played a huge role in our childhood memories about prehistoric beasts and is a major reason why so many generations of kids aspired to become archaeologists after watching the series.

Harry Potter is also among influential fantasy movies, by the way, and thankfully the Harry Potter movies are on Netflix in USA so you can easily binge them this holiday season.

Coming back to the dinosaurs, the franchise has done remarkably well since the release of the first film, Jurassic Park (1993), and boasts several successful additions to the franchise. Steven Spielberg, who directed the Jurassic Park film, based his movie on the novel Jurassic Park written by Michael Crichton, which took the storm when it was first released in US.

 A sixth film in the series, Jurassic World: Dominion is scheduled for release in 2022. The filming locations was mostly California.

Masterminds plot to bring the captured dinosaurs to Lockwood’s estate and auction them off to wealthy bidders.

Jurassic Park won more than twenty awards, including three Oscars, and in 2018 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It also has a four part comic book series named Devils in the Desert Jurassic Park.

For movie marathoners out there, we’ve compiled the list of all the Jurassic Park movies in order in US, so you can jump right into the Jurassic world theme park world:

  • Jurassic Park (1993)
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
  • Jurassic Park III (2001)
  • Jurassic World (2015)
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
  • Battle at Big Rock (2019)*
  • Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

Above are all the Jurassic Park series listed.

Note: Battle at Big Rock is a live-action short and not a proper film.

1. Jurassic Park (1993)

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Director: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough

IMDb rating: 8.1/10

Storyline:

The original Jurassic park film begins with the owner of the park, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), who recruits a team of specialists to evaluate his dino-theme park, located in a fictional island with the name Isla Nublar, to ensure that his theme park is truly safe before it is officially opened for the public to visit.

The team consists of paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Elliot Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). However, their visit soon turns to a matter of life and death when a major power outage causes the main attractions, the dinosaur clones, to run loose.

This was the first Jurassic Park film and is considered as one of the most successful film in US.

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2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

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Director: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite and Vince Vaughn

IMDb rating: 6.6/10

Storyline:

In the second instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise, John Hammond who has lost control of InGen manages to keep the existence of Isla Sorna, a second island used for the breeding of dinosaurs, a secret.

Following a disaster on the second island, Hammond recruits the help of Ian Malcolm and a new team to go investigate the dinosaurs there but the team encounters the new owners of InGen, who send their own team to the island with a hidden agenda.

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3. Jurassic Park III (2001)

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Director: Joe Johnston

Stars: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni and Alessandro Nivola

IMDb rating: 5.9/10

Storyline:

Jurassic Park III is the last instalment in the Jurassic Park Trilogy and follows the story of Dr. Alan Grant who wants to study the intelligence of Velociraptors.

Unable to find funding for his project, Dr. Grant is approached by Paul and Amanda Kirby, who promise to fund his research if he accompanies them on their expedition to Isla Sorna, though their reason for visiting the Island is to search for their son who had gone missing on the island.

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 4. Jurassic World (2015)

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Director: Colin Trevorrow

Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins and Judy Greer

IMDb rating: 7/10

Storyline:

The first film of the Jurassic World Trilogy, Jurassic World is set 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park, known as the fourth film.

The story takes place on the same fictional island of Isla Nublar where CEO of Masrani Global Corporation Simon Masrani bought InGen in 1997 to recreate his own theme park, an improvement of what Hammond had hoped to achieve with his own theme park.

Similar to the story of Jurassic World, a genetically modified dinosaur, Indominus Rex escapes its enclosure and goes on a killing spree and it’s up to Owen Grady to stop the mutated beast from wreaking havoc on the island.

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5. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

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Director: J.A. Bayona

Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith and Jeff Goldblum

IMDb rating: 6.2/10

Storyline:

A sequel to Jurassic World, fifth film, Fallen Kingdom continues the story where the survival of the dinosaurs of the fictional island Isla Nublar is threatened when reports of the island’s dormant volcano erupting are heard, Owen and Claire return to the Isla Nublar once again to save the remaining dinosaurs from extinction.

This movie also features the return of Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm from the original Jurassic Park in 1993.

6. Battle at Big Rock (2019)

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Director: Colin Trevorrow

Stars: André Holland, Natalie Martinez, Melody Hurd, and Pierson Salvador.

IMDb rating: 7/10

Storyline:

This short film takes place after the events of Jurassic World: the Fallen Kingdom where the remaining dinosaurs were rescued from a volcanic eruption on Isla Nublar and focuses on a small family who had made camp at a park called Big Rock.

The family witnesses the battle between a Nasutoceratops who’s defending its baby against a hungry Allosaurus.

This movie gained a lot of popularity in comparison to previous Jurassic world films in US.

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7. Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

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Stars: Paul-Mikél Williams, Kausar Mohammed, Jenna Ortega and Ryan Potter

IMDb rating: 7.6/10

Storyline:

Set for release on 10th June 2022, much of the plot is kept secret but what we do know is that Colin Trevorrow will return as writer and director, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard will resume their roles from the Jurassic World series.

This new theme park movie will also feature Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern returning to the series as their original characters from Jurassic Park (1993)

There is also a TV Series based on the Jurassic Franchise, Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020 – present) which features the story of a teenager named Darius who along with a group of teenagers who won a contest allowing them to visit Jurassic World the same day where the park begins to crumble.

The teenagers must find a way to survive as the dinosaurs, free from their enclosures, wreak havoc on the island.

The movies in this list follow a chronological order based on when the movies were released and are a must-watch for fans in US who are interested in diving into the entire world of prehistoric mayhem in the modern world.

After watching the Jurassic Park movies in order in US, you will understand why Jurassic Park is one of the highest-grossing movies of the ’90s and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

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Chris Mack

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