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Welcome to CinemaHub’s Timeline of The New 52 DC Animated Movie Universe.
The timeline shows how to watch The New 52 DC Animated Universe Movies in order and explains how each animated film connects to the other. Starting with The Flashpoint Paradox and ending with Justice League Dark Apokolips War.
The timeline also shows recent DCAU Elseworld Movies in chronological order of release.
Please, feel free to use and share the timeline. And if you prefer, you can also check out and download our DC Animated Movie Universe Infographic.
Update: Checkout our new Timeline for DC’s Tomorrowverse
Enjoy!!!
1. Justice League: The Flashpoint (2013)
Flashpoint follows Barry Allen (The Flash) in a war-torn alternate timeline, where he teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to return home and restore the timeline.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Flashpoint ends the previous DC Animated Film continuity and starts the New 52 DCAU
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League: The Flashpoint (2013)
2. Justice League: War (2014)
Justice League: War, sees the World’s finest heroes come together to stop an alien invasion of Earth and form the Justice League.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League: War is the 1st film set in the New 52 DC Animated Movie Universe formed by the Flashpoint Paradox. It sees Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and other notable DC Heroes meeting for the first time.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League: War (2014)
3. Son of Batman (2014)
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group the League of Assassins. Son of Batman is the first appearance of Damian Wayne in the New 52 DCAU
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Explained in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Son of Batman (2014)
4. Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
When Atlantean troops assault Metropolis as revenge for their king’s death, the Queen seeks help from the Justice League to find her son, who has gone missing during the madness.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Nightwing & Robin in a 45-second movie set during the events of Justice League: Throne of Atlantis. The short film sees Nightwing and Damian Wayne’s Robin (Who debuted back in Son of Batman) finishing the Scarecrow mission that Green Lantern interrupted in Throne of Atlantis—thus indicating that Son of Batman happened before this movie.
Nightwing & Robin also sets up the next New 52 DC Animated movie by giving us the first appearance of the Talons, who happen to be the Court Owls’ enforcers (The main villains of Batman vs. Robin).
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
5. Batman vs. Robin (2015)
While Damian Wayne struggles to cope with Batman’s no-killing rule, he soon starts to believe that his destiny lies within a secret society known as The Court of Owls.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Explained in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
6. Batman: Bad Blood (2016)
Bruce Wayne is missing. Alfred covers for him while Nightwing and Robin patrol Gotham City in his stead, while a new player, Batwoman, investigates Batman’s disappearance.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Batman: Bad Blood is a direct sequel to Batman vs. Robin that introduces Batwoman and Batwing to the New 52 DC Animated Movie Universe.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Batman: Bad Blood (2016)
7. Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Batman sends Robin to work with the Teen Titans after his volatile behavior messes up a Justice League mission. The Titans must then step up to face Trigon after he possesses the League and threatens to conquer the world.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League vs. Teen Titans is the first appearance of the Teen Titans in the New 52 DCAU.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
8. Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay (2018)
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay follows Task Force X (their cooler name) as they try to retrieve a mysterious artifact to save their boss, Amanda Waller, from Hell.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne) recalls his death in Flashpoint by Thomas Wayne’s Batman. This flashback makes Hell to Pay a sequel to Flashpoint.
However, Amanda Waller mentions The Justice League, thereby placing Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay some time after Justice League: War. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay (2018)
9. Justice League Dark (2017)
Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains. This team of supernatural beings includes John Constantine, Zatanna, and Jason Blood, also known as the demon Etrigan.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League Dark marks the first appearance of Zatanna, Constantine, Swamp Thing, and Etrigan in The New 52 DCAU.
At the end of Justice League Dark, Jason Blood dies. However, during The Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay tie-in comic, Jason is still alive, which means that Hell to Pay takes place before Justice League Dark.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League Dark (2017)
10. Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Tara Markov is a girl who has power over earth and stone; she is also more than she seems. Is the newest Teen Titan an ally or a threat? And what are the mercenary Deathstroke’s plans for the Titans?
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Judas Contract is a sequel to Justice League vs. Teen Titans. However, it picks up a couple of years later with a new member on the team, Tara Markov.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
11. The Death of Superman (2018)
After a raging monster named Doomsday, decimates the Justice League, it’s left to the Man of Steel to stop this force of destruction in the most epic showdown in the DC Animated Movie Universe.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
In The Death of Superman, we find out that Clark is now with Lois Lane. Their relationship is relevant because, as of Teen Titans vs. Justice League, Superman was still in a relationship with Diana. This means the Super-couple must have split sometime between Teen Titans Vs. Justice League and The Death of Superman. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
The Death of Superman (2018)
12. Reign of The Supermen (2019)
As the world mourns the Man of Steel’s death, new heroes emerge, each claiming to be the real Superman reborn. But when a deadly threat uses Superman’s absence to target Earth, their powers are put to the ultimate test.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Reign of The Supermen is a direct sequel to Death of Superman, and it picks up a few months after The Man of Steel’s death.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Reign of The Supermen (2019)
13. Batman Hush (2019)
Batman: Hush sees a mysterious villain use Catwoman, Riddler, Ra’s al Ghul, and several of Batman’s other enemies and allies in a game to create chaos in the Dark Knight’s life.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
During The Death of Superman, Clark reveals to Lois that he is Superman. And in Hush, Lois is still aware of this fact, meaning that Batman: Hush must take place after The events of Regin of The Supermen when Clark comes back.
We also find out that Lex Luthor is now a probationary member of the Justice League, which is a reference to the end to Regin of The Supermen when Luthor joins the League. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Batman Hush (2019)
14. Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Wonder Woman tries to help a troubled young girl, Vanessa, who has fallen in with a deadly organization known as Villainy Inc. headed by Dr. Cyber.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
15. Justice League Dark Apokolips War (2020)
Following the Earth’s Destruction, Apokolips War, sees the remaining superheroes regroup and take the War to Darkseid himself, in a final effort to save the world.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War ends the DC Animated movie Universe with another Flashpoint. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League Dark Apokolips War (2020)
16. Constantine: The House of Mystery (2022)
After he and The Flash rewrite time at the end of Apokolips war, John Constantine finds himself imprisoned in the House of Mystery as punishment for causing a second flashpoint event. However, what seems like a harsh punishment soon reveals itself to be an act of mercy.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
At the end of Constantine: The House of Mystery, The Spectre confirms that Constantine’s imprisonment was because he convinced the Flash to reset the timeline again. And when The sorcerer breaks out of his Jail, The DC Universe recaptures him and exacts a worse punishment.
In crisis on infinite earths, we see Constantine within the new continuity suffering through his punishment as The universe forces him to witness the end of every universe hit by the antimatter.
Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Constantine: The House of Mystery (2022)
DCAU ELSE WORLD MOVIES
1. Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker. At the same time, Amanda Waller hires her newly formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum to recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
2. Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC’s Trinity (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman), who operate outside of the law, are framed for the murder of prominent scientists, and the government decides to take them out.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
3. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his fall into madness.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
4. Batman Gotham By Gaslight (2018)
In an alternative Victorian-Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while investigating a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
Batman Gotham By Gaslight (2018)
5. Batman Ninja (2018)
Batman Ninja sees the Dark Knight and a number of his adversaries transported from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Batman Ninja (2018)
6. Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
The Earth’s fate hangs in the balance when the Justice League faces the Fatal Five, a time-traveling band who terrorizes Metropolis in search of the budding Green Lantern.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Justice League: Fatal Five (2019)
7. Superman Red Son (2020)
Superman: Red Son is an alternate take on the man of steel that portrays him as a Soviet hero after his rocket lands in the USSR. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video 
Watch On Apple TV
Superman Red Son (2020)
8. Batman: Soul of The Dragon (2021)
Set in the 1970s, this Elseworld adventure finds Bruce Wayne teaming up with his past classmates and friends to defeat an old enemy. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
Batman: Soul of The Dragon (2021)
Welcome to CinemaHub’s Timeline of The New 52 DC Animated Movie Universe.
The timeline shows how to watch The New 52 DC Animated Universe Movies in order and explains how each animated film connects to the other. Starting with The Flashpoint Paradox and ending with Justice League Dark Apokolips War.
The timeline also shows recent DCAU Elseworld Movies in chronological order of release.
Please, feel free to use and share the timeline. And if you prefer, you can also check out and download our DC Animated Movie Universe Infographic.
Enjoy!!!
1. Justice League: The Flashpoint (2013)
Flashpoint follows Barry Allen (The Flash) in a war-torn alternate timeline, where he teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to return home and restore the timeline.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Flashpoint ends the previous DC Animated Film continuity and starts the New 52 DCAU
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
2. Justice League: War (2014)
Justice League: War, sees the World’s finest heroes come together to stop an alien invasion of Earth and form the Justice League.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League: War is the 1st film set in the New 52 DC Animated Movie Universe formed by the Flashpoint Paradox. It sees Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and other notable DC Heroes meeting for the first time.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
3. Son of Batman (2014)
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group the League of Assassins. Son of Batman is the first appearance of Damian Wayne in the New 52 DCAU
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Explained in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
4. Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
When Atlantian troops assault Metropolis as revenge for their king’s death, the Queen seeks help from the Justice League to find her son, who has gone missing during the madness.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Nightwing & Robin in a 45-second movie set during the events of Justice League: Throne of Atlantis. The short film sees Nightwing and Damian Wayne’s Robin (Who debuted back in Son of Batman) finishing the Scarecrow mission that Green Lantern interrupted in Throne of Atlantis—thus indicating that Son of Batman happened before this movie.
Nightwing & Robin also sets up the next New 52 DC Animated movie by giving us the first appearance of the Talons, who happen to be the Court Owls’ enforcers (The main villains of Batman vs. Robin).
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
5. Batman vs. Robin (2015)
While Damian Wayne struggles to cope with Batman’s no-killing rule, he soon starts to believe that his destiny lies within a secret society known as The Court of Owls.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Explained in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
6. Batman: Bad Blood (2016)
Bruce Wayne is missing. Alfred covers for him while Nightwing and Robin patrol Gotham City in his stead. And a new player, Batwoman, investigates Batman’s disappearance.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Batman: Bad Blood is a direct sequel to Batman vs. Robin that introduces Batwoman and Batwing to the New 52 DC Animated Movie Universe.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
7. Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Batman sends Robin to work with the Teen Titans after his volatile behavior messes up a Justice League mission. The Titans must then step up to face Trigon after he possesses the League and threatens to conquer the world.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League vs. Teen Titans is the first appearance of the Teen Titans in the New 52 DCAU.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
8. Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay (2018)
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay follows Task Force X (their cooler name) as they try to retrieve a mysterious artifact to save their boss, Amanda Waller, from Hell.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne) recalls his death in Flashpoint by Thomas Wayne’s Batman. This flashback makes Hell to Pay a sequel to Flashpoint.
However, Amanda Waller mentions The Justice League, thereby placing Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay some time after Justice League: War. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
9. Justice League Dark (2017)
Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains. This team of supernatural beings includes John Constantine, Zatanna, and Jason Blood, also known as the demon Etrigan.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League Dark marks the first appearance of Zatanna, Constantine, Swamp Thing, and Etrigan in The New 52 DCAU.
At the end of Justice League Dark, Jason Blood dies. However, during The Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay tie in comic, Jason is still alive, which means that Hell to Pay takes place before Justice League Dark.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
10. Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Tara Markov is a girl who has power over earth and stone; she is also more than she seems. Is the newest Teen Titan an ally or a threat? And what are the mercenary Deathstroke’s plans for the Titans?
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Judas Contract is a sequel to Justice League vs. Teen Titans. However, it picks up a couple of years later and with a new member on the team, Tara Markov.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
11. The Death of Superman (2018)
After a raging monster named Doomsday, decimates the Justice League, it’s left to the Man of Steel to stop this force of destruction in the most epic showdown in the DC Animated Movie Universe.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
In the Death of Superman, we find out that Clark is now with Lois Lane. Their relationship is relevant because, as of Teen titans vs. Justice League, Superman was still in a relationship with Diana. This means the Super-couple must have split some time between Teen titans vs. Justice League and the Death of Superman. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
12. Reign of The Supermen (2019)
As the world mourns the Man of Steel’s death, new heroes emerge, each claiming to be the real Superman reborn. But when a deadly threat uses Superman’s absence to target Earth, their powers are put to the ultimate test.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Reign of The Supermen is a direct sequel to Death of Superman, and it picks up a few months after The Man of Steel’s death.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
13. Batman Hush (2019)
Batman: Hush sees a mysterious villain use Catwoman, Riddler, Ra’s al Ghul, and several of Batman’s other enemies and allies in a game to create chaos in the Dark Knight’s life.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
During The Death of Superman, Clark reveals to Lois that he is Superman. And in Hush, Lois is still aware of this fact, meaning that Batman: Hush must take place after The events of Regin of The Supermen when Clark comes back.
We also find out that Lex Luthor is now a probationary member of the Justice League, which is a reference to then the end to Regin of The Supermen when Luthor joins the League. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
14. Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Wonder Woman tries to help a troubled young girl, Vanessa, who has fallen in with a deadly organization known as Villainy Inc., headed by Dr. Cyber.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
15. Justice League Dark Apokolips War (2020)
Following the Earth’s Destruction, Apokolips War sees the remaining superheroes regroup and take the War to Darkseid himself, in a final effort to save the world.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War ends the DC Animated movie Universe with another Flashpoint. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
16. Constantine: The House of Mystery (2022)
After he and The Flash rewrite time at the end of Apokolips war, John Constantine finds himself imprisoned in the House of Mystery as punishment for causing a second flashpoint event. However, what seems like a harsh punishment soon reveals itself to be an act of mercy.
How it Fits Into The Timeline:
At the end of Constantine: The House of Mystery, The Spectre confirms that Constantine’s imprisonment was because he convinced the Flash to reset the timeline again. And when The sorcerer breaks out of his Jail, The DC Universe recaptures him and exacts a worse punishment.
In crisis on infinite earths, we see Constantine within the new continuity suffering through his punishment as The universe forces him to witness the end of every universe hit by the antimatter.
Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
DCAU ELSE WORLD MOVIES
1. Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker. At the same time, Amanda Waller hires her newly formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum to recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
2. Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC’s Trinity (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman), who operate outside of the law, are framed for the murder of prominent scientists, and the government decides to take them out.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
3. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his fall into madness.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
4. Batman Gotham By Gaslight (2018)
In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while investigating a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper. Read our Full Review.
Where To Watch:
Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
5. Batman Ninja (2018)
Batman Ninja sees the Dark Knight and a number of his adversaries transported from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
6. Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
The Earth’s fate hangs in the balance when the Justice League faces the Fatal Five, a time-traveling band who terrorizes Metropolis in search of the budding Green Lantern.
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
7. Superman Red Son (2020)
Superman: Red Son is an alternate take on the man of steel that portrays him as a Soviet hero after his rocket lands in the USSR. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
8. Batman: Soul of The Dragon (2021)
Set in the 1970s, this Elseworld adventure finds Bruce Wayne teaming up with his past classmates and friends to defeat an old enemy. Read Our Full Review
Where To Watch: Watch On Prime Video Watch On Apple TV
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