James Bond in release order

About this order

What is on this list

All twenty-five of EON's films, from Dr. No to No Time to Die. The two Bond films made outside EON — the 1967 Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again — which sit in date order among the rest, because this list is ordered by release and not by who made it. And, first of all, the live television Casino Royale of 1954.

That is the whole of James Bond on screen. There has never been a Bond television series, or a Bond television film, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap on this page.

The 1954 one comes first, and it is the odd one out

Eight years before Dr. No, CBS broadcast Casino Royale live as the third episode of its anthology series Climax!. Barry Nelson plays an American agent the script calls Jimmy Bond; Peter Lorre plays Le Chiffre. It is the first screen adaptation of any Ian Fleming novel.

It is filed here under Climax!, the series that actually carried it, rather than as a Bond production, because that is what it was.

Premieres are not releases

A gala is not a release, and on this site it has never counted. That rule matters more here than anywhere else, because a Bond premiere is a London event with a royal in the audience and it is the date the official site, Wikipedia and most reference books print.

Six films therefore sit on a different day from the one usually given. Diamonds Are Forever opened in Munich on 14 December 1971, sixteen days before the London screening its own studio calls the world premiere — by then it had already played Sydney, Melbourne and forty-four cities across the US, Canada and Europe. Live and Let Die opened in America nine days before its London "world premiere", which is not a thing a world premiere can do. Licence to Kill went on UK release four weeks after its charity premiere. Thunderball, The Man with the Golden Gun and the 1967 Casino Royale each move by a day or ten for the same reason.

Four more are judgement calls, all resolved the same way: where no source says when the paying run began, the premiere does not get the benefit of the doubt. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Octopussy, From Russia with Love and the 1967 Casino Royale are each dated a day or more after the event they are usually dated by.

Dr. No opened in the morning and premiered in the evening

The first film needs none of that argument, and the detail is worth having.

At the London Pavilion on 5 October 1962, the first paying performance of Dr. No was at a quarter to eleven in the morning. The gala — Connery, Terence Young, Broccoli, Saltzman, Fleming — was at ten to nine that night. The public saw James Bond ten hours before the premiere did, and the film then played that one cinema for two days before going out across the country.

What is not here

Bond 26 has a director, a writer and producers, and no title, no cast and no release date. A list ordered by release cannot carry a film that has never been dated.

James Bond Jr. is a licensed animated series from 1991 and runs to sixty-five episodes, but its lead is Bond's teenage nephew and Bond is not in it. 007: Road to a Million is a reality competition. The documentaries — The Incredible World of James Bond, Everything or Nothing — are about the films rather than part of them.

The radio dramatisations are the likeliest thing to look like a gap: the BBC Radio 4 productions with Toby Stephens, and the 1958 South African Moonraker with Bob Holness, who was playing Bond thirty years before he was asking the questions. They are radio, and this is a list of things on screen.

And the six minutes in which Daniel Craig escorted Elizabeth II out of a helicopter over the Olympic Stadium, on 27 July 2012, are part of a ceremony rather than a release of their own.