What are the names of the Jack Ryan movies? What order are the Jack Ryan movies in? How many seasons of the Jack Ryan TV series are there?
Writer Tom Clancy’s novels have inspired a franchise of movies that started in 1990 and a TV series on Amazon Prime that premiered in 2018. The films and series follows Jack Ryan, a fictional character created by Clancy that has been written about for over 30 years. After Clancy’s death in 2013, five other authors including Mark Greaney, Grant Blackwood, Mike Maden, Marc Cameron and Don Bentley have continued to write novels for what some call the “Ryanverse.”
Here’s a list of the movies starring Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine, and Prime Video series starring John Krasinski as Jack Ryan.
Jack Ryan Movie Franchise Films
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
In November 1984, the Soviet Union’s best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?
Patriot Games (1992)
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia’s President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Jack Ryan TV Series
Season 1 (2018) – 8 Episodes
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
Season 2 (2019) – 8 Episodes
After tracking a suspicious shipment in the Venezuelan jungle, Jack Ryan heads to South America to investigate. As Jack threatens to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy, the President of Venezuela launches a counter-attack that hits home, leading Jack on a mission spanning the US, UK, Russia, and Venezuela to unravel the President’s plot and bring stability to a country on the brink of chaos.
Season 3 (2022) – 8 Episodes
In Season 3 of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jack races against time and across Europe to stop a rogue faction within the Russian government from restoring the Soviet Empire and starting World War III.
Season 4 (2023) – 8 Episodes
The fourth and final season finds Jack Ryan on his most dangerous mission yet. As the new CIA Acting Deputy Director, Jack is tasked with unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers a conspiracy much closer to home.