How to Watch the No Retreat, No Surrender Movies in Order

Want to watch the No Retreat, No Surrender movies in order? The franchise spans 5 films released from 1986 to 1991. The simplest approach is release order, which is how the story was meant to unfold for audiences. Here is the complete No Retreat, No Surrender watch order, with links to our full guides for each film.

1. No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)

The mob is trying to strongarm local martial arts schools, forcing young Jason Stillwell and his family to move after his father is injured defending their dojo. With his father now rejecting violenc

2. No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987)

In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.

3. No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)

Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.

4. The King of the Kickboxers (1990)

Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand.

5. American Shaolin (1991)

After being humiliated in the ring a young karate student travels to China in order to study the ancient art of Shaolin Kung Fu, and in the process becoming the first American Shaolin.

Watch order at a glance

1. No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
2. No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987)
3. No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)
4. The King of the Kickboxers (1990)
5. American Shaolin (1991)

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