How Many Indiana Jones Movies Are There?

There are five Indiana Jones movies, and every one is a main saga film starring Harrison Ford as the archaeologist. The series has no theatrical spin-offs, so the count of five is also the full film list. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is a TV series, which is why it is left out of that count. For the franchise as a whole, start at the indiana jones movies hub.

The first film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, opens in 1936 with a golden idol in a booby trapped Peruvian temple and sends Indy after the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can claim it. It cost $18 million and earned about $390 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom came next in 1984, and it is a prequel set in 1935. That puts it before Raiders in story order, even though it arrived second. The indiana jones movies in order guide and the indiana jones timeline cover how to handle that. Its set pieces include a Shanghai nightclub escape, a rubber raft drop down a mountain and a mine cart chase.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade followed in 1989 and added Sean Connery as Professor Henry Jones. It earned about $474 million worldwide on a $48 million budget, the biggest take of the original trilogy.

Then came a long gap. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull arrived in 2008, set in 1957, with Cate Blanchett as the Soviet colonel Irina Spalko and Shia LaBeouf as Mutt Williams. Box Office Mojo lists $786.6 million worldwide against a $185 million budget, the largest gross of the five.

The latest film is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, released in 2023 and directed by James Mangold. It is set in 1969, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena and Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Voller. The indiana jones box office page breaks the grosses down film by film, and the indiana jones cast page lists who returned.

The five films split into three clear eras, and, in my opinion, the numbers explain the series better than the count does. The original trilogy ran from 1981 to 1989 on budgets of $18 million, $28 million and $48 million, and each film grew the audience at the box office. Raiders turned $18 million into about $390 million, which is still the sharpest return of the five.

Production habits changed across that run. Lucasfilm notes that the snake sound in Raiders was made with a cheese casserole, and that the Nazi U-boat base was a miniature from 1941 combined with a matte painting. Temple of Doom, which began life under the title Temple of Death, shot its mine chase with Nikonflex miniature work, and it was the darker film that helped pave the way for the PG-13 rating, which Last Crusade then carried in the US. Compare that handmade approach with the $185 million Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and the $300 million Dial of Destiny, and the series clearly moved from practical craft toward very expensive spectacle.

That cost curve is the fairest way to read the later grosses. Crystal Skull earned the most of the five at $786.6 million, while Dial of Destiny, the costliest film, earned about $384 million worldwide, less than Raiders, Last Crusade and Crystal Skull. It could be argued that this gap, not the quality of the film, is why Dial of Destiny gets called a flop. The indiana jones movies ranked page covers how the five compare on merit.

Yes, the fifth film is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), and it is the most recent in the series. As of November 3, 2026, Lucasfilm and Disney have not announced, dated or started production on a sixth. The latest status sits on the indiana jones 6 page.