Here's the best way to watch all the Star Wars movies in order. There's a sense in which Star Wars has always been told out of order; the opening crawl for The Empire Strikes Back introduced the idea it was actually "Episode V," confirming George Lucas had dropped viewers in partway through the story he intended to tell. He wrapped up the original trilogy, and only returned to tell the prequels decades later. Lucas set a pattern that Star Wars has stuck to ever since, with movies and TV shows hopping around the timeline with impunity.