The Hunger Games film series, adapted from the novels by Suzanne Collins, spans multiple decades of Panem's dystopian history. While most viewers encountered the story through Katniss Everdeen’s televised revolution, the saga begins far earlier, during the grim inception of the Games themselves. The prequel film, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, reshapes the series’ timeline, offering vital context about the early Capitol regime, the fractured Districts, and the ideological seeds that would grow into full rebellion.
This article lays out the Hunger Games films in chronological order, based on in-universe events rather than release date. From the 10th Hunger Games, where a young Coriolanus Snow begins his ruthless rise, to the climactic overthrow of the Capitol in the 75th Hunger Games and beyond, this ordering reveals the full arc of Panem’s descent, rebellion, and transformation.
Chronological Order of The Hunger Games Films
| Title | In-Universe Year | Key Events |
|---|---|---|
| The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | ~64 Years Before Katniss | The 10th Hunger Games. Young Coriolanus Snow mentors District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird. The Capitol begins experimenting with spectacle, control, and engineered cruelty. Snow’s ideology and ambition take root. |
| The Hunger Games | Year 74 | Katniss Everdeen volunteers to replace her sister Prim in the 74th Hunger Games. Her defiance against the Capitol begins with the berry trick. Peeta and Katniss become dual victors, disrupting tradition and sparking dissent. |
| The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Year 75 | Katniss and Peeta are forced into the 75th Games, a special Quarter Quell featuring past victors. An underground plot leads to their rescue and the destruction of the arena. District 13 reemerges. Revolution ignites. |
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | Shortly After Year 75 | Katniss becomes the face of the rebellion. The Capitol retaliates with brutal propaganda and psychological warfare. Peeta is captured and brainwashed. Districts begin coordinated uprising. |
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 | Final War Year | Full-scale war against the Capitol. Snow is overthrown. Coin's moral ambiguity is exposed. Katniss executes Coin instead of Snow. The Hunger Games are abolished. A new era for Panem begins, with Katniss living in peace far from politics. |
Told across decades of tyranny, televised trauma, and radical rebellion, the Hunger Games saga isn’t just Katniss’s story—it’s the rise and fall of Panem itself. Watching the films in timeline order sharpens the political themes, revealing how Snow’s formative years mirror the oppression he would later command, and how Katniss’s symbolic resistance becomes the inevitable endpoint of the Capitol’s decay. From songbirds to Mockingjays, this is dystopian sci-fi as mythic generational history.
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