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Men in Black

edited 2026-06-19

A complete viewing and reading order for the Men in Black franchise — the original Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones trilogy, the spin-off Men in Black: International, all four seasons of the alternate-canon animated series, and the original Lowell Cunningham comics that inspired it all. Covers films in both release and in-universe chronological order.

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01FILM
1997The 1997 film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Will Smith as James Edwards — a streetwise NYPD officer recruited into a covert governm…
1h 38m
02FILM
2002The 2002 sequel directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, reuniting Will Smith as Agent J with Tommy Lee Jones as the retired and neuralyzed Agent K. A…
1h 28m
03FILM
2012The 2012 third installment directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, in which Agent J travels back in time to 1969 to prevent the assassination of a you…
1h 46m
04FILM
2019The 2019 spin-off directed by F. Gary Gray, set in the same MIB universe as the trilogy but centered on a new London branch and an entirely…
1h 55m