What is the order of the Star Wars Movies?

Star Wars Movies series tells one of the most wonderful epic histories that is told by now on the Earth surface.

Although this epic story takes places long long years actually hundreds and thousands years after todays ages, and it takes place on different galaxies and on different planets, where Earth is not one of them, this epic tale is telling a man Anakin Skywalker with his believes, his faith and his struggle with his wrongs and truths, with his braveness and his passions to love and power.

What makes the Star Wars movies and this epic history most loved among science-fiction movies is this balance between todays and our races features with the vision of future.

My age is old enough to live the Star Wars saga as a fan while the saga was still being told. But now I see that many young cinema and movie viewers, are hesitating and have doubts in their minds from which movie to start watching the Star Wars series. and what order they will watch Star Wars movies.

This is actually a question that should be asked to the creater of the Star Wars saga, George Lucas.

I can easily answer to the question "What is the order of the Star Wars Movies?" by looking at the released and launch dates of the movies.

I believe that if the saga was told beginning from the childhood of Anakin, the main and the heroic character of the saga, the Star Wars saga might not be so successfull. I believe the narrator of a story, is very important on how the story is understood by the listeners.

The Star Wars saga is told first by beginning from the "Episode IV: A New Hope" and the first main character seen on the cast was Darth Vader. The Evil in the told story whom the good struggled against.

But with the Second Part, "Episode I: The Phantom Menace", we saw that the Evil character Darth Vader was once a small brilliant child and was always good in mind and manner. And the following movies "Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" showed the audience of this epic saga that this good boy perfect in many ways can lose his way in the long ways of life and can be a part of the Evil threatening the good.

This way of telling the story make me believe that George Lucas did not want us to hate the Anakin Skywalker, but to sorrow for this man and his painful story. So I believe that watching the movies as their displayed order on cinemas will give us this feelings.

It is best to watch the Star Wars movies in the following order:

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Clone Wars (TV Series)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

What is the chronological order of the Star Wars movies as they are released and shown on theaters?

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005 - TV Series - Animation)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 - Animation)

What is the chronological order of the movies as they take place in the epic history of Star Wars Galaxies?

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005 TV Series - Animation)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 - Animation)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)