If you ever wanted to go back and rewatch all the different Michael Bay movies and their prequels, as well as these awesome animated films, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s break it down Transformers movies in order, both chronologically and by release date.

Live-Action Transformers Movies in Chronological Order

You can see all Transformers movies listed by release date at the bottom of this article, but for now we’ll focus on the live-action film series and how to watch these seven films in chronological order. With the Michael Bay films and the two prequels respectively directed by Travis Knight and Steven Caple Jr., this series takes you back to decades of fighting between the Autobots and the Decepticons.

Bumblebee (2018)

Although one of the most recently released films in the franchise, 2018’s Bumblebee takes place in San Francisco in 1987, two decades before the events of Transformers. In this box office successCharlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld) finds and befriends B-127, aka Bumblebee (voiced by Dylan O’Brien), after the friendly Autobot lands on Earth and transforms into a yellow Volkswagen Beetle.