How to watch the Marvel movies in order: chronological

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A Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) timeline is probably what you're looking for. Here's how
to watch the Marvel films in chronological order, starting with Captain America: The First
Avengers and finishing with Spider-Man: Far From Home (for now). The reason to watch the
Marvel movies in this order is pretty simple: you'll see events play out as they happened, from
Red Skull's grab for the Tesseract in the '40s all the way up to Peter's school trip to Venice in the
present day. 

This is the chronological viewing order of the Marvel movies:

 Captain America: The First Avenger (takes place during WWII)

 Captain Marvel (takes place in 1995)
 Iron Man (takes place in 2010)
 Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man)
 The Incredible Hulk (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
 Thor (takes place six months before Avengers)
 The Avengers (takes place in 2012)
 Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after The Avengers)
 Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
 Captain America: Winter Soldier (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
 Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in 2014)
 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (after Guardians)
 Avengers: Age of Ultron (takes place in 2015)
 Ant-Man (takes place in 2015)
 Captain America: Civil War (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
 Spider-Man: Homecoming (post-Civil War, pre-Infinity War)
 Doctor Strange (takes place in 2016)
 Black Panther (takes place in 2017)
 Thor: Ragnarok (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
 Avengers: Infinity War (takes place in 2017)
 Ant-Man and The Wasp (ambiguous, but fits nicely between IW and Endgame)
 Avengers: Endgame (starts in 2017, finishes in 2022)
 Spider-Man: Far From Home (post-Endgame)

When 2021 Marvel movies like Black Widow and The Eternals are finally released, along with
Disney Plus shows like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision, we'll update this
MCU timeline accordingly. Black Widow, for example, is confirmed to be set after Captain
America: Civil War yet before Infinity War, but with its release date delayed until 2021, we've
left it off this list for now.