Indiana Jones Complete Timeline Explained

A complex timeline has emerged over the course of the Indiana Jones movie franchise, which first began in 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Helmed by director Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford in another career-making role (in addition to playing Han Solo), the Indiana Jones movies span more than 30 years in real time, and a little more than 20 years in-universe - that is, if you don't count all the historical events which lie at the heart of each Indiana Jones installment. With most of the franchise set during the 1930s and later picking up in the 1950s, audiences follow Indy as he travels across the world in order to find and preserve the world's greatest treasures, including the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail. Despite the Indiana Jones sequels never really measuring up to the original film, the Indiana Jones movie timeline has grown to become highly complex - but the Indian Jones movie release order is easy to pin down: It is Unknown when the Aliens arrive in the Akator region of the Amazon, giving local tribesman incredible amounts of knowledge. The tribes build the city of Akator in tribute to the alien explorers and accumulate a vast amount of gold and other treasures.