How Many How to Train Your Dragon Movies Are There?

There are four theatrical How to Train Your Dragon movies as of November 2026: three animated films from DreamWorks Animation and one live action remake. They arrived in this order, and the last of them is the live action How to Train Your Dragon (2025):

1. How to Train Your Dragon (2010), directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, opened in US theaters on March 26, 2010 and runs 98 minutes.
2. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), directed by Dean DeBlois, opened in the US on June 13, 2014 and runs 102 minutes.
3. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), also directed by Dean DeBlois, opened in the US on February 22, 2019 and runs 104 minutes.
4. How to Train Your Dragon (2025), Dean DeBlois's live action debut, opened in the US on June 13, 2025 and runs 125 minutes.

Two titles repeat, so the year is what separates the 2010 animated original from the 2025 live action version, and it does the same job for How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and the live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027). Every released film follows Hiccup, voiced by Jay Baruchel in the animated films and played by Mason Thames in 2025, and Toothless, the Night Fury he befriends. Gerard Butler voices Hiccup's father Stoick in the animated films and plays him again in 2025. For the full line up, see the cast and crew and character guides.

Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011) and How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) are not counted as movies, because neither is a theatrical feature. Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011) is a 22 minute special released on US home video on November 15, 2011. It is set around Snoggletog, the Viking winter holiday, when the dragons of Berk suddenly leave the island and Hiccup builds Toothless an automatic tailfin. How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) is a 22 minute special directed by Tim Johnson that aired on NBC on December 3, 2019. It is set ten years after How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), just before the epilogue of that film, as the villagers of New Berk prepare for Snoggletog.

The feature count covers cinema releases only, and the two specials appear in the watch order as context. The watch order guide shows where each one sits.

HTTYD, the fans' shorthand for the series, is popular enough that the four movies have earned about $2.29 billion worldwide combined, according to Box Office Mojo and The Numbers. Each has grossed well above its budget: How to Train Your Dragon (2010) made $494 million on a $165 million budget, and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) made $622 million on $145 million (it also screened Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014). How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) made $540 million on $129 million.

The highest grossing film in the series is How to Train Your Dragon (2025), with $637 million worldwide on a $150 million budget, including $263 million in the US and Canada. It out-grossed all three animated films. Among the animated films, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) earned the most. The full breakdown by country sits on the box office page.

The main difference is that How to Train Your Dragon (2025) retells the story of How to Train Your Dragon (2010) with real actors and sets, and runs 125 minutes against 98. Its principal photography took place in the UK, and the animated films and the remake share one constant behind the scenes: John Powell is the credited composer on all four. Roger Deakins, the visual consultant, worked on How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). The live action vs animated comparison covers the differences scene by scene.

Each film widens the world of the one before it. In my opinion, that growth is the clearest way to tell them apart, and the setups bear it out.

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) is the smallest in scale and the most personal. Hiccup shoots down a Night Fury during a raid, nobody believes him, and he finds the injured dragon in the woods and cannot bring himself to kill it. From there the story stays on Berk, in the blacksmith shop with Gobber and in the dragon-fighting class with Astrid and the other teens. Jónsi's song Sticks & Stones is the notable song credited to this film.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) leaves the island. Five years after the peace with dragons, Hiccup and Toothless chart unexplored lands, and Hiccup and Astrid come upon a burnt forest before being captured by trappers who work for the warlord Drago, voiced by Djimon Hounsou. The cast grows to include Cate Blanchett as Valka and Kit Harington as Eret. The film is also the series' festival outing, since it screened Out of Competition at Cannes in 2014, according to the festival's own listing.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) is the longest of the animated films at 104 minutes and the one with the sharpest villain: F. Murray Abraham voices Grimmel, a hunter who is given a female Light Fury as bait for Toothless. Syfy Wire's profile of Roger Deakins's visual consulting role covers the courtship scene between Toothless and the Light Fury and the design of the undersea world. Jónsi's Together from Afar is the notable song credited here.

How to Train Your Dragon (2025) returns to the first film's story, with Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid and Nick Frost as Gobber, and at 125 minutes it runs 27 minutes longer than the 2010 original. Hiccup brings down the Night Fury with a homemade launcher and names the wounded dragon Toothless. Dean DeBlois directed both the 2014 and 2019 sequels and the 2025 remake, and the animated films' composer John Powell returned for the remake, so the series has unusually steady creative leadership across 15 years.

Yes, a fifth film is in the works: the live action How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2027), which Universal has dated for June 11, 2027 in the US. Screen Daily reported the date from CinemaCon in April 2025, and no move has been reported since. Dean DeBlois is directing and announced, according to Screen Rant, that principal photography ended on May 15, 2026 after 81 days, with the film moving into post production.

Cate Blanchett is reported to play Valka, the role she voiced in How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), and TheWrap and Deseret News also report Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James and Harry Trevaldwyn returning from 2025. Those castings are reported rather than formally announced by the studio. Release dates for the UK and Australia have not been confirmed. For the latest, see the next movie page, and the trailers page for footage.

Watch How to Train Your Dragon (2010) first, then follow release order; How to Train Your Dragon (2025) is a fair alternative if you prefer live action. Both set up Hiccup and Toothless on Berk, and all four films carry a PG rating in the US, UK and Australia, so the official guidance is the same across the series. To see where each film streams, check where to watch; as of November 2, 2026, How to Train Your Dragon (2025) is on Netflix in the US and Australia, according to JustWatch data via TMDB. The movies hub links to every other page in the series.