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Star Warsis a massive , X - foresighted franchise that ’s put out a huge amount of content , and it would take an unbelievably prospicient time to watch every canonStar Warsmovie and show . With over 47 years of storytelling , Star Warshas made a veritable imperium of contentedness with an enormous total runtime . UpcomingStar WarsmoviesandnewStar Warsshowswill certainly add to the entire amount of time it takes to see everything the dealership has to bid , but as of writing , Star Warsis already fantastically long .
There are severalviewing club for all theStar Warsmovies and shows , but those plans do n’t always conduct just how much of an project see all ofStar Warsreally is . There are quite literally day deserving of cognitive content in the franchise , and far more story to be find out in metier beyond the movies and display . Over the year , Star Warshas explore almost every corner of the wandflower far , far aside , and it ’s taken quite a bit of time to show it all .
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front at all nine Skywalker Saga entries and three spinoffs , we crown the upright Star Wars movie in our full ranking of the galaxy far , far away .
26Star Wars
Release Date: May 25, 1977
The originalStar Wars , which was afterward retitledA New Hope , has a fairly aboveboard runtime , but it was n’t always that way . A New Hope , like the quietus of the original trilogy , welcome several special editions and re - dismission . Those extra edition added different elements to the pic , from including previously cancel scenes to extending exist ones and adding CGI , and they lengthen their runtimes . Since Disney+ only has the 4 thousand remastered release available to pullulate , that edition ’s runtime will be counted towardsStar Wars ' total .
A New Hope Runtime
With Credits
2 time of day , 6 bit
Without course credit
2 hours
25The Empire Strikes Back
Release Date: May 21, 1980
LikeA New Hope , The Empire Strikes Backhas had its share of re - releases . Still , though , it is a rather straightforward computation to see what its total runtime was . It ’s also interesting to note thatThe Empire Strikes Backis only two instant longer than its predecessor , and had an additional spare minute of credits .
The Empire Strikes Back Runtime
2 hours , 9 minutes
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2 time of day , 2 minutes
24Return of the Jedi
Release Date: May 25, 1983
Return of the Jedihad quite a bit add together to it in the particular editions and re - releases . A large part of its additional runtime came from added celebrations after the destruction of the New Death Star . Those celebration introduced prequel trilogy planets like Naboo and Coruscant two geezerhood beforeThe Phantom Menacecould do so itself . That also meansReturn of the Jedicontributed a few seconds tothe part ofStar Warsset on Coruscant .
return key of the Jedi Runtime
2 hours , 17 hour
2 hours , 8 minutes
23Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Release Date: May 19, 1999
After most 16 geezerhood , Star Warsfinally brought a unexampled original film to theaters withStar Wars : Episode I - The Phantom Menace . As the first accounting entry in the prequel trilogy , The Phantom Menacelaid quite a bit of groundwork for what was to fare , and it did so in about two hours and 10 minutes . It was a whole runtime that only slightly extend upon the original trilogy ’s times , andThe Phantom Menaceused its sentence quite well .
The Phantom Menace Runtime
2 hour , 18 minutes
2 hours , 10 minute
22Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Release Date: May 16, 2002
The Phantom Menace ’s story was somewhat diminished in shell , butStar warfare : Episode II - Attack of the Clonesmagnified that scale leaf exponentially . Since it separate the sprawling report of the beginning of the Clone Wars , Attack of the Clonesfeatured the longest runtime in the prequel trilogy at over two hours and 15 minutes . Some spectator criticizedAttack of the Clonesfor being " bloated " when it first release , but the amount of fresh lore it introduce toStar Warsmade up for its lack of concision .
Attack of the Clones Runtime
2 hours , 24 minutes
2 60 minutes , 16 arcminute
21Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Star Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sithhad to wrap up the entire prequel trilogy up and connect cohesively to the original trilogy . That was a very marvelous ordering , and as a solvent , Revenge of the Sithwas scantily shorter thanAttack of the Clones , as it have a two 60 minutes and 14 minute runtime . Luckily , Revenge of the Sithmoves so chop-chop and features so many converging story line that there is barely a second of that runtime that feels deadening .
Revenge of the Sith Runtime
2 hours , 22 moment
2 hr , 14 min
20Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie
Release Date: August 10, 2008
An often forgottenStar Warsmovie , the originalThe Clone Warsmovie is often overshadow by its far more successful series . The Clone Warsmovie does still exist , though , and it contributed over 90 moment of content toStar Wars ' full runtime . It may be a forgotten gain toStar Warscanon , but without theClone Warsmovie , many of the best moments in the franchise would never have go on .
The Clone Wars Movie Runtime
1 hour , 40 second
1 hr , 34 minutes
19Star Wars: The Clone Wars
October 3, 2008 - May 4, 2020
So far , calculating runtime for theStar Warsmovies has been moderately aboveboard . Star Wars : The Clone Wars , however lay out a job . With 133 episodes , seven seasons , and over two full days of mental object , The Clone Warsis massive , and merely take off the credit from each episode is n’t workable . Instead , the average duration of reference , break down by time of year , was subtracted from the official runtime expose on Disney+ . Even with that formula , The Clone Warsis far and away the longestStar Warsstory ever say .
The Clone Wars Runtime
2 days , 10 hours , 19 moment
2 day , 1 60 minutes , 27 minutes
18Star Wars Rebels
October 3, 2014 - March 5, 2018
LikeThe Clone Wars , Star Wars Rebelswas a likewise hard show to calculate the runtime of . With 75 episode over four seasons , totaling over a day in runtime , Rebelsis virtually as much of a behemoth asThe Clone Warswas . That figure was calculated the same fashion asThe Clone Wars ' was , althoughRebels ' runtime also include the four short that play along the series .
Rebels Runtime
1 day , 6 hours , 20 minute
1 Clarence Day , 3 hours , 44 arcminute
17Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Walter Elias Disney purchasedStar Warsfrom creator George Lucas in 2012 , but the company would n’t release its first movie in the dealership until 2015’sStar war : The Force Awakens . In many way , The Force Awakenswas an court toStar state of war ' history . It even resembled the rest of the Skywalker saga ’s runtimes , though some viewers took exception to how many resemblance it had to the original trilogy . In the remainder , The Force Awakensadded over two hours of runtime toStar Wars .
The Force Awakens Runtime
2 hour , 7 minutes
