Alien and Predator Movies in Order: One Combined Timeline

August 2022 / In-Universe year : 1719

Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.

June 1987 / In-Universe year : 1987

A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

November 1990 / In-Universe year : 1997

The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles.

June 2025 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)

A Viking raider, a ninja from feudal Japan, and a World War II pilot encounter a fierce intergalactic hunter.

August 2004 / In-Universe year : 2004

During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.

December 2007 / In-Universe year : 2004

Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

July 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010

A group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race.

September 2018 / In-Universe year : 2018

When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

June 2012 / In-Universe year : 2093

Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.

May 2017 / In-Universe year : 2104

The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a desperate escape.

August 2025 - September 2025 / In-Universe year : 2120

When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.

May 1979 / In-Universe year : 2122

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

February 2019 / In-Universe year : 2137

Adrift in space near the gas giant KG-348, Amanda Ripley records the story of her trip to Sevastopol Station, where she went to recover the flight recorder of her mother's ship, the Nostromo.

August 2024 / In-Universe year : 2142

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

July 1986 / In-Universe year : 2179

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

May 1992 / In-Universe year : 2179

Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.

November 1997 / In-Universe year : 2381

Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.

November 2025 / In-Universe year : 2400 (approx)

A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.