How to Train Your Dragon Movies: The Complete Franchise Guide

The How to Train Your Dragon movies are a DreamWorks Animation franchise of four films, from How to Train Your Dragon (2010) to the live action How to Train Your Dragon (2025), about the Viking teenager Hiccup and the Night Fury dragon Toothless. Hiccup is a small and awkward teenager on the island of Berk who cannot bring himself to kill the Night Fury he shoots down. In How to Train Your Dragon (2010), directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Hiccup is the son of the chief Stoick and an apprentice to the blacksmith Gobber, and he longs to fight dragons like everyone else in the village. After shooting down the rare Night Fury during a raid, he finds the injured dragon in the woods and starts to befriend it. He later joins the village dragon fighting class alongside Astrid and the other teens, which gives the first film its mix of training sessions and a secret friendship.

The story then moves forward in steps rather than repeating the premise. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), directed by Dean DeBlois, opens five years after Berk made peace with dragons, with Hiccup and Toothless charting unexplored lands while Stoick urges his son to prepare to become chief. Hiccup and Astrid find a burnt forest and are captured by trappers who work for the warlord Drago, who wants an army of enslaved dragons, so Hiccup sets out to talk him out of it. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), also directed by DeBlois, finds Berk overcrowded and under constant attack from hunters, and Hiccup decides the village must find the Hidden World, a dragon haven his father once described. Meanwhile the hunter Grimmel is given a female Light Fury as bait to lure Toothless, whom the warlords want as an alpha.

How to Train Your Dragon (2025) is the live action version of the first story, again directed by Dean DeBlois, with Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid and Gerard Butler returning as Stoick, the role he voiced in the animated films. It was shot in the UK, with principal photography in Belfast, and it runs 125 minutes, compared with 98 minutes for How to Train Your Dragon (2010). Fans who want to weigh the animated and live action versions against each other can start with how to train your dragon live action vs animated, and the dragons themselves have their own guide in how to train your dragon dragons.

The series is unusually consistent behind the scenes. Dean DeBlois has directed all four films, sharing the first with Chris Sanders, John Powell composed the score for each of them, and Jay Baruchel voiced Hiccup in every animated film. The series also includes two songs by Jónsi: Sticks & Stones in How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and Together from Afar in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), and the music is covered in full in how to train your dragon soundtrack. That continuity matters when comparing the versions, because How to Train Your Dragon (2025) is a retelling by a director of How to Train Your Dragon (2010), and it marks DeBlois's live action debut.

The four films have earned about $2.29 billion worldwide between them. How to Train Your Dragon (2010) took $494 million on a $165 million budget, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) took $622 million on $145 million, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) took $540 million on $129 million, and How to Train Your Dragon (2025) took $637 million on $150 million, which makes How to Train Your Dragon (2025) the highest grossing of the four. Film by film grosses are broken out in how to train your dragon box office, the case for each film's place in the series is made in how to train your dragon movies ranked, and the full count of releases is in how many how to train your dragon movies are there. The people and the story have their own guides too: the how to train your dragon cast, the how to train your dragon timeline, how to train your dragon reviews and how to train your dragon merchandise.

In the US, How to Train Your Dragon (2025) streams on Netflix, How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) stream on Paramount Plus, and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) is rent or buy only; the UK and Australia differ. These are the listings JustWatch reported through TMDB on November 2, 2026, and streaming lineups change often.

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) also streams on Peacock in the US, and all four films can be rented or bought from services such as Apple TV Store, Amazon Video and YouTube. How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming streams on Hulu in the US, while Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury was not available to stream, rent or buy in the US, UK or Australia on that date.

In the UK, How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) stream on Amazon Prime Video and Now TV Cinema, How to Train Your Dragon (2025) streams on Sky Go and Now TV Cinema, and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) is rent or buy only. Australia has the widest choice: Netflix carries all four films, with Stan, Paramount Plus and Amazon Prime Video also listed for the three animated ones. Country by country options are laid out in where to watch how to train your dragon.