The Wizard of Oz - Watch Order: Release Order
The Wizard of Oz has inspired over a century of feature film adaptations, each offering its own unique interpretation of L. Frank Baum's beloved world. Rather than forming a connected franchise, these films represent different creative visions of the same source material, from MGM's Technicolor classic to urban retellings, dark sequels, and musical prequels.
This release order watch list includes the most significant theatrical adaptations, spanning multiple decades and styles. You'll encounter different timelines, reboots, and alternate mythologies that each establish their own rules for the Land of Oz, making this less of a traditional franchise and more of a showcase of how one story can be endlessly reimagined.

The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Return to Oz
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.

Oz the Great and Powerful
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.

Wicked
In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Wicked: For Good
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
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