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How to watch the How to Train Your Dragon movies in order

Updated October 21, 2026 · 6 min read · 3 titles · 5 hours

Watch the How to Train Your Dragon movies in release order: How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). It is one continuous story, with five years passing between the first two films. The 2025 live-action film retells the first one.

Titles

3

Films

3

Watch time

5 hours

Box office

$1.66 billion

Avg IMDb

7.8

How to Train Your Dragon movies in release order

Here is every How to Train Your Dragon title in the order it came out, 2010 to 2019: 3 films.

Release or chronological: which order is best?

For How to Train Your Dragon, release order and story order are the same thing: every film picks up after the one before it. There is no prequel to slot in early and no flashback to reshuffle, so the list above is the only order you need.

Where to start

Every How to Train Your Dragon movie, explained

One entry per title in release order: what it is about, why it matters to the bigger story, who is in it and how it did.

No. 01 · 2010 · Film · 1h 38m

How to Train Your Dragon

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

Why it matters: Hiccup befriends Toothless.

Starring

Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, and Craig Ferguson

Director

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders

Box office

$495 million on a $165 million budget

Scores

IMDb 8.1 · Rotten Tomatoes 99%

No. 02 · 2014 · Film · 1h 42m

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons—and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the ruthless conqueror Drago Bludvist rises to seize control of both dragons and people alike, Hiccup must step into his role as a true leader and, alongside his friends and Toothless, protect Berk from a devastating war.

Why it matters: Five years later; Hiccup finds his mother.

Starring

Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, and Gerard Butler

Director

Dean DeBlois

Box office

$622 million on a $145 million budget

Scores

IMDb 7.8 · Rotten Tomatoes 92%

No. 03 · 2019 · Film · 1h 44m

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

Why it matters: Ends the animated trilogy.

Starring

Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, and F. Murray Abraham

Director

Dean DeBlois

Box office

$540 million on a $129 million budget

Scores

IMDb 7.4 · Rotten Tomatoes 90%

How to Train Your Dragon box office and budgets

The 3 How to Train Your Dragon films with reported numbers have grossed $1.66 billion worldwide on about $439 million in combined budgets, roughly 3.8 times what they cost. The biggest is How to Train Your Dragon 2 at $622 million, 38% of the franchise's total on its own, followed by How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($540 million) and How to Train Your Dragon ($495 million).

Measured against what it cost, the best return belongs to How to Train Your Dragon 2, which made 4.3 times its $145 million budget. The weakest was How to Train Your Dragon at 3.0 times its $165 million budget. As a rule of thumb, a film needs about two and a half times its budget at the box office to cover marketing and the theaters' cut.

The best and worst rated How to Train Your Dragon movies

Across 3 rated titles, How to Train Your Dragon averages 7.8 on IMDb. The top of the list is How to Train Your Dragon at 8.1, then How to Train Your Dragon 2 (7.8) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (7.4). At the bottom: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (7.4) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (7.8).

1. How to Train Your Dragon8.1 · RT 99%
2. How to Train Your Dragon 27.8 · RT 92%
3. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World7.4 · RT 90%

Who appears in the most How to Train Your Dragon movies

Jay Baruchel leads with 3 appearances as Hiccup, ahead of Gerard Butler (3) and Craig Ferguson (3). Counted from each title's top-billed cast.

How to Train Your Dragon directors and creators

2 filmmakers have directed or created How to Train Your Dragon; Dean DeBlois has the most, with 3.

• Dean DeBloisHow to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
• Chris SandersHow to Train Your Dragon (2010)

How long it takes to watch every How to Train Your Dragon movie

All 3 titles add up to 5 hours. That is about 3 two-hour evenings, or 1 days of ten-hour binges. The longest film is How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World at 1h 44m.

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