Alien/Predator

About this order

What's on this list

Every Alien and Predator film from 1979 to 2025, both Alien vs. Predator films, the twenty-one Alien shorts, the seven-part Alien: Isolation digital series, and all eight episodes of Alien: Earth.

Read the Verse column here

This is one of six pages on the site where it does real work. ALIEN, PREDATOR and AVP are three separate strands, and the column is the quickest way to see which of them a row belongs to - because in release order they alternate. Predator lands between Aliens and Alien3; Predators falls between Alien Resurrection and Prometheus.

The digital series is a genuine prequel

Alien: Isolation's seven parts have Samuels recruiting Amanda Ripley on the news that the Nostromo's flight recorder has been found, Amanda recovering it and finding the data corrupted, and Marlow describing the same derelict ship and its cargo of eggs that the Nostromo stumbled on fifteen years earlier. Four rows on this page are marked, and all four are from this series - it reaches back into the first film more directly than any of the sequels do.

The shorts outnumber the films

Twenty-one of them, most from the 2019 anthology made for the fortieth anniversary. They are on the page in their release positions.

Two names, one page, and no strong claim about canon

The two AVP films are on this list because they were released, not because anybody maintains they fit. This is a release-order site: it records what came out and when, and leaves what counts to you.

Where to watch the shorts, and where the badges come from

Most of the shorts are free on YouTube, on the studio's own channels, and this page links twenty-one of them directly. Those badges are the ringed ones, and they mean something different from the rest of the column: free to anyone, no subscription and no rental.

They are also found differently. Everything else in the Watch column comes from an availability service that is re-asked every week. The free uploads were found by hand, because no such service indexes marketing films, and they are re-checked about once a year — an official upload either stays up for years or is pulled, which is not the way a streaming licence behaves.

Two caveats worth having. The links are recorded as available everywhere, which is what every one of them reported when it was checked, but a free upload can be region-blocked in ways that are hard to verify from one country. And the studio's flagship channel has quietly dropped most of this material over the years; what survives is mostly on the Alien Anthology channel and on the regional arms of the old 20th Century Fox channels, which is why a link may open a page whose description is in Portuguese or Indonesian even though the film itself is in English.

Seven shorts have no link, and each has a reason

Four have no official upload anywhere: Project Prometheus: Mission, Weyland Industries Testimonial, the Rick and Morty crossover promo, and Advent. Everything circulating for those is a fan re-upload.

The other three are more interesting, because something official exists and it is the wrong thing. Prometheus Transmission survives only as two Blu-ray excerpts, roughly a minute each, of a short that runs much longer. Phobos has a sneak peek of about a minute where the film itself runs three and a half. And Crew Messages is not one video at all but six separate character films, so linking any single one of them would misrepresent the row.

In all three cases a badge would take you somewhere plausible and wrong, which is worse than taking you nowhere. The specific video identifiers are recorded in the site's own data so nobody has to find them twice.