Every James Bond Movie Is Finally Available to Stream in One Place
I've spent a few years here at Lifehacker writing up or editing lists of all the movies coming to the biggest streaming services every month, and one thing I've taken note of, as a fan of the James Bond films, is how annoying it is to figure out where (and if) you can stream all 25 of the iconic spy films.
It's rare for any one streamer to have more than a handful of them at a time, a situation that has persisted even after Amazon bought MGM, the film studio that owns the rights to the franchise, in 2021. As a customer in the modern streaming marketplace, it's frustrating, but certainly not unprecedented state of affairs—though Paramount+ bills itself as the streaming home of the Star Trek franchise, for example, you can currently only stream three of the big-screen Trek films there.
There's a simple reason for this, and it unsurprisingly has zero to do with making things easier for the consumer: By signing short-term licensing deals with a bevy of different streamers, the rights holders can make a lot more money. That's why it's such a rare delight to have all 25 Bond films* streamable in the same place—something that has only briefly happened once before, as far as I can determine.
Where to stream all the James Bond films right now
Unsurprisingly, given Amazon owns MGM, the current streaming home for every film in the franchise is Amazon Prime Video. This is generally good new for Bond fans, since there's a good chance they're already a Prime member (like 184 million other folks in the U.S.). Unfortunately there are a few caveats worth noting.
*One of the best Bonds is only technically available
First, while all 25 Bond films are technically available on Prime Video, if you want to watch 2006's Casino Royale (hey, that's my favorite one!), as of this writing you can only do so via Prime Video if you sign up for the Paramount+ add-on channel. That costs $7.99 extra per month on top of your Prime membership, but you can watch directly via Prime Video without logging into a separate Paramount+ app, so I guess that was close enough for the people running the official James Bond account on X.
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Two Bond films aren't included at all
Second, "all 25 007 movies" doesn't include two other Bond films that aren't typically counted as part of the franchise proper: 1967's Peter Sellers-starring comedic take on Casino Royale, and 1983's Never Say Never Again, in which Sean Connery returned to the title role even as Roger Moore was still the "official" 007 for complex legal reasons you're probably familiar with if you're a big enough Bond fan to know the movie exists at all. If you want to watch either of these minor entries in the canon, you'll need to go the digital rental route.
How long will the Bond films be streaming on Prime Video?
Third—and here's the real sticky wicket when you're trying to stream anything these days—is the fact that there's no way of knowing how long all 25 movies will remain available via Prime Video. Amazon isn't exactly forthright about what titles are leaving the service and when, so my advice is to spend the rest of October binging Bond, if you're so inclined (and can find the time amid all the spooky season fare). That's your mission, if you choose to accept it. Wait, wrong spy franchise (but luckily all seven Mission: Impossible movies are also in one spot right now: Paramount+).
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