James Bond has a massive franchise of 25 films where he saves the world time and time again.
With so much violence, villians, and vengeance it can be hard to keep track.
Grab your popcorn as we unravel 007's entire filmography from Connery to Craig.
"I admire your luck Mr.? Bond, James Bond"
In the first film in the Bond series, Dr. No, Bond travels to Jamaica to investigate
the death of the MI6 station chief.
Bond's subsequent investigation, which included multiple attempts on his life, led him to
Crab Key, and a radioactive area guarded by a "dragon," which turned out to be a tank
with a flamethrower attached.
There, Bond and his companion, Honey Ryder, discovered the lair of Dr. Julius No, a scientist
who'd been recruited by the evil organization known as SPECTRE — or, "Special Executive
for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion".
No's plan involved using his advancements in radiation to disrupt the upcoming launches
of the Mercury space program.
With Ryder's help, Bond is able to sabotage the effort, kill No, and destroy his lair.
His success in stopping Dr. No led to a vow of vengeance from SPECTRE leadership that
would haunt Bond for years.
Dr. No also introduced a key Bond ally, CIA Agent Felix Leiter, who would assist him in
future missions.
From Russia with Love introduced more SPECTRE leadership, including the mysterious Number
One, and featured assassins attempting to lure Bond to his death by stealing a Russian
cryptographic device.
Though several SPECTRE killers pursued him, Bond was able to both free the device from
SPECTRE control and kill his assassins.
The film also introduced Bond's beloved equipment master, Q.
In Goldfinger, Bond shifted focus from SPECTRE to Auric Goldfinger, a gold-obsessed megalomaniac
who, with the help of smuggled nerve gas, planned to detonate a dirty bomb in Fort Knox
to make the U.S. supply of gold useless.
This would increase the value of Goldfinger's own personal gold horde and plunge the world
into economic chaos.
Bond was able to thwart Goldfinger's plans with the help of the pilot, Pussy Galore.
Goldfinger also introduced another key part of the Bond mythos: His Aston Martin spy car,
complete with ejecting passenger seat.
Thunderball featured the return of SPECTRE and a plot led by Emilio Largo, Number Two
in the organization, to hijack a pair of nuclear bombs from NATO and hold the world hostage.
With the help of Largo's former mistress, Domino, Bond was able to infiltrate Largo's
home to kill him.
You Only LiveTwice featured another encounter with SPECTRE, including the organization's
mysterious leader, Ernst Blofeld.
With the help of the head of the Japanese secret service, Bond went undercover to find
SPECTRE's secret volcano lair, where a plot to covertly start World War III was underway.
With numerous Japanese operatives fighting alongside him, Bond defeated Blofeld, but
didn't kill him.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the only Bond film to star George Lazenby as 007 , and
it's also one of the most consequential films in the franchise.
In that film, Bond is tracking Blofeld when he meets Teresa "Tracy" di Vincenzo [dee vin-SHIN-zoh],
who he began to romance after saving her from a suicide attempt.
Tracy's father, the head of a massive European crime syndicate, encouraged the romance, and
Bond agreed to keep seeing Tracy in exchange for information about Blofeld.
Bond's investigation into the head of SPECTRE ultimately led him to the Swiss Alps, where
Blofeld established a clinic claiming to cure people of their allergies.
In reality, Blofeld had brainwashed 12 women to be "angels of death," who would become
biological weapons which sabotage the food supply of the world.
Bond's boss, M, agreed to Blofeld's ransom terms, but because Blofeld captured Tracy,
Bond decided to mount an attack on the facility anyway.
Bond, with the help of Tracy's father and his allies, was able to thwart Blofeld's plan,
but failed to capture the head of SPECTRE.
When they reunited, Bond and Tracy were married, but the union was cut tragically short.
Blofeld and his operative Irma Blunt staged a drive-by shooting on Bond's parked car,
and, while 007 survived, his new bride was killed.
Tracy's death would continue to haunt Bond for years.
Diamonds Are Forever marked the final time in the Eon series that Bond would be played
by Sean Connery, and featured 007 battling Blofeld yet again.
This time, the head of SPECTRE was revealed as the mastermind behind a diamond smuggling
ring and the construction of a diamond-encrusted satellite laser that could detonate nuclear
weapons from space.
Blofeld planned to auction the satellite off to the highest bidder, but Bond was once again
able to stop him.
Live and Let Die marked the beginning of the Roger Moore era of Bond, an era that featured
no major SPECTRE stories and instead relied on a slightly more standalone style.
In that film, Bond traveled to the Caribbean island of San Monique to investigate the deaths
of three different MI6 operatives in less than 24 hours.
There, he uncovered a plot by the island's leader, Dr. Kananga, to distribute free heroin
in a chain of restaurants, and thus increase drug addiction and therefore drug sales around
the world.
The whole operation was disguised by a cloud of voodoo-based terror to prevent locals from
asking too many questions.
With the help of Kananga's advisor Miss Solitaire, Bond was able to stop the operation.
"I know you!"
"Oh no."
"You're that secret agent!
That English secret agent from England!"
In his next two adventures, Bond would encounter several different kinds of killers who would
challenge his place as the world's deadliest secret agent.
In The Man with the Golden Gun, Bond received a golden bullet from the titular assassin,
a reclusive millionaire named Francisco Scaramanga [skare-uh-MANG-uh].
Though M pulled Bond back from official business, 007 set out to track down Scaramanga himself,
and ultimately learned that Scaramanga had stolen a device that could change the future
of energy production and disrupt the world economy.
The two battled on Scaramanga's remote island home near China, and Bond ultimately defeated
the man with the golden gun.
The Spy Who Loved Me saw Bond investigating a series of vanished submarines owned by both
British and Soviet navies.
He was forced to team up with Soviet spy Anya Amasova, and the two uncovered a plot by billionaire
scientist Karl Stromberg to start a nuclear war using the submarines.
Bond and Amasova were able to infiltrate Stromberg's underwater lair, where he planned to restart
civilization after World War III was fought, and stop nuclear missiles from reaching New
York and Moscow.
The Spy Who Loved Me also introduced one of Bond's most memorable opponents: The metal-toothed
assassin known only as Jaws.
Over the course of his next four movies, Bond would traverse the world while dealing with
everything from mad scientists to power-hungry Russian generals.
In Moonraker, Bond teamed with CIA agent Holly Goodhead to stop industrialist Hugo Drax from
wiping out the world's human population via deadly nerve gas and starting a new "perfect"
civilization from a secret space station.
In For Your Eyes Only, Bond teamed up with a vengeful young woman to stop a secret British
targeting computer from falling into Soviet hands.The cold open features Bond visiting
his wife's grave and battling a slightly disguised version of Blofeld before killing him.
In reality, Blofeld had been removed from Moore-era Bond films for legal reasons, and
this was the franchise's tongue in cheek way of addressing that.
In Octopussy, Bond again faced scheming Soviet generals.
This time, he teamed up with the unlikely title ally, the enigmatic leader of a cult
of women who ran a circus troupe, to stop a nuclear bomb plot that would lead to Soviet
dominance in Western Europe.Then, in A View to a Kill, Bond traveled to San Francisco
to stop the mad business titan Max Zorin from flooding Silicon Valley to secure his own
monopoly on the future of microchips.
Each time, Bond was able to win in the end.
"Shall I have some Vodka martinis sent up?"
"Shaken, not stirred."
In 1987 the Bond series passed into the hands of new star Timothy Dalton [DAHL-tun], who
starred in two very different Bond films to close out the decade.
In The Living Daylights, Bond was once again swept up in Cold War schemes, this time in
the form of a KGB defector who sought 007's protection.
When the defecting agent went missing, Bond began investigating and was swept into a web
of lies that involved a cellist, a renegade arms dealer, and a defection that may have
been staged all along.
License to Kill brought a more personal approach to Bond's work, and re-teamed him with his
old CIA friend Felix Leiter.
When the head of a drug cartel ordered a revenge hit on Leiter, severely injuring him and killing
his wife in the process, Bond set out for revenge.
When M tried to rein him in, Bond wouldn't budge, and so his license to kill was revoked.
As a rogue spy, with a little help from Q, Bond journeyed to Central America to seek
revenge, and destroy a drug cartel in the process.
"Beg your pardon.
Forgot to knock."
After a six-year gap, James Bond returned for the beginning of the Pierce Brosnan era
with Goldeneye, a film that heavily relied on the idea that Bond was the product of a
bygone age dealing with new threats.
In that film, he dealt directly with the fallout from the end of the Cold War in the form of
his former partner, 006, who'd faked his death to transition to leading a criminal organization,
which in turn planned to use a satellite EMP device to crash Britain's economy.
In Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond went toe-to-toe with the manipulation of the media, as he
battled media mogul Elliott Carver.
Carver plans to start a phony war between Britain and China by creating news meant to
inflame tensions, with the help of a deadly stealth ship and some clever technology.
In The World is Not Enough, Bond dealt once again with the fallout from the Cold War,
battling an ex-KGB agent and an oil heiress he'd once considered a friend, as they attempted
to steal Soviet plutonium to create a bomb to enhance their own oil interests.
In Brosnan's final Bond film, Die Another Day, 007's list of modern threats grew to
include North Korea, as he battled a Korean colonel who'd disguised himself as a British
billionaire as part of a scheme to destroy the demilitarized zone between North and South
Korea, starting the Korean War all over again.
"Your file shows no kills.
And it takes…"
"Two."
With the beginning of the Daniel Craig era of Bond, Eon Productions decided to do something
new, and completely rebooted the Bond timeline.
Though Judi Dench stayed on for this era of the series as M, she was the only real holdover
from the Brosnan days.
All of Bond's other allies were recast, and Bond himself was depicted as a much younger
operative.
He gains his 00 status in the cold open of Casino Royale, by killing two people as part
of a mission.
The bulk of Casino Royale involves Bond investigating the funding of terrorism through the dangerous
banker known as Le Chiffre [luh SHEEF-ruh], with the help of British Treasury agent Vesper
Lynd.
As the pair dug deeper into Le Chiffre's money and where it was going, they were able to
gain a key victory via a high-stakes poker game, but Le Chiffre retaliated by kidnapping
them both.
"Now the whole world is going to know that you died scratching my balls."
Le Chiffre was killed by an enigmatic man known as Mr. White, and while Bond was able
to reunite with Vesper, he also discovered she could be a double agent.
As Bond attempted to stop Vesper's treachery, he was attacked by White's men.
Vesper ultimately sacrificed herself, and her supposed betrayal was revealed to be part
of a deal she made with White to save Bond's life.
Vesper's death would continue to haunt Bond for much of the story that followed, and he
began his quest for vengeance by tracking down White.
Bond's capture and subsequent interrogation of Mr. White revealed the existence of a criminal
group known as Quantum, the primary villains of Quantum of Solace.
That film saw Bond battling the shadowy group as it attempted to seize control of Bolivia's
water supply to create a monopoly.
Bond ultimately triumphed, and in the process was able to seemingly let go of his grief
over Vesper's death.
Skyfall brought a more personal mission to the fore, as Bond returned to MI6 after a
self-imposed exile when the organization's headquarters were destroyed by an unknown
attacker.
Working with M, who faced pressure from her superiors to retire, Bond discovered the mastermind
was ex-MI6 agent Raoul Silva.
Silva worked for M in the years before Bond came along, until she disavowed him and left
him to be tortured by Chinese agents, leaving him disfigured and eager to seek revenge.
"It's not very comfortable is it?"
"Are you going to complain the whole way?"
"Oh go on and eject me.
See if I care."
With Silva's grip on MI6 seemingly too tight to shake, Bond and M retreated to Scotland
to Bond's ancestral home, Skyfall.
Once there, they prepared for an assault with the help of the house's groundskeeper.
Though they were able to fight off Silva's men and eventually kill Silva himself, M died
from her wounds after the battle, leaving Bond to mourn another important woman in his
life.
Spectre began with Bond investigating a lead left for him by M, against the wishes of the
new M. Bond persisted in his investigations, despite a new privatization effort that led
to the shutdown of the 00 program, and found a shadowy organization led by a man named
Franz Oberhauser [frahnz OH-ber-how-zer].
Further investigation revealed that Mr. White, still alive after the events of Quantum of
Solace, was somehow connected to this organization, and that Oberhauser was supposed to have died
decades earlier.
Teaming with Mr. White's daughter, Madeleine [MAD-uh-lin] Swann, Bond discovered that all
of his previous enemies — including Le Chiffre, members of Quantum, and Raoul Silva — could
all be tied back to the organization known as Spectre.
Even the privatization at MI6, which included a new global surveillance effort, was a Spectre-backed
attempt to thwart counterterrorism agents.
Then it got worse.
After capturing Bond, Oberhauser revealed that his true name was Ernst Stavro Blofeld,
and that he'd known Bond as a boy.
After Bond's parents died, Oberhauser's father took Bond in and began to look at him with
such favor that young Franz decided to seek revenge.
He killed his father, faked his death, and devoted his life to a massive criminal enterprise
that he ultimately turned on Bond.
This massive personal vendetta, decades in the making, culminated with Bond capturing
but not killing Blofeld, leaving him free to return for future sequels.
Bond emerged from the film Spectre with Blofeld in prison and Madeleine Swann on his arm,
and decided it was time to step away from MI6 in favor of a trip with his lover.
Hoping to build a future with Madeleine, Bond opted to visit Vesper's grave in Italy and
let her go once and for all.
When he visited the gravesite, though, it was revealed to be a SPECTRE trap, which Bond
immediately blamed on Madeleine.
Though he was willing to get her out of harm's way, he wasn't willing to attempt to mend
fences yet again.
Feeling that he'd had enough of betrayals, Bond put Madeleine on a train, intending to
leave her behind forever, and entered retirement from MI6.
Done with the life of a hard-fighting spy, he retreated to Jamaica to live out the rest
of his days in solitude, but as it always goes with James Bond, the past still had a
way of catching up.
Five years after Bond left Madeleine and retired from MI6, his old friend Felix Leiter tracked
him down with a new mission.
A dangerous new weapon dubbed Heracles had fallen into the hands of a terrorist known
as Safin.
Bond investigated, and discovered Heracles was an MI6-backed weapon, a nanobot cloud
that could kill anyone whose DNA was placed into its targeting system.
As Bond discovered this, he also witnessed Safin orchestrate a plan to use Heracles to
murder every member of SPECTRE, and lost Felix during the mission.
Furious, Bond turned to Blofeld, now in prison and the only surviving member of SPECTRE.
As he attempted to interrogate Blofeld, Bond inadvertently killed him, as the Heracles
nanobots were in his bloodstream but coded to kill Blofeld.
That left one more person with knowledge of Safin: Madeleine, who'd met the villain as
a child.
Desperate to stop Heracles, which had the potential to kill millions, Bond sought out
his former lover, and found more than he bargained for.
Bond found Madeleine at her childhood home in Scandinavia, and learned that in the five
years since they'd last seen each other, she'd given birth to a daughter, who she named Mathilde.
Madeline and Mathilde were captured and taken to a secluded island where Safin held court
at a "poison garden."
With the help of Q and Nomi, his replacement as agent 007, Bond followed Safin to the island
with the goal of saving Madeline and Mathilde, and destroying Heracles.
Bond and Nomi managed to infiltrate Safin's island and made a terrifying discovery: They
had scaled up production on Heracles, and were preparing to use it on countless victims
around the world.
Racing against time, Bond managed to rescue Madeleine and Mathilde and get them to safety,
then began figuring out how to stop Heracles.
The only solution was to destroy the entire island, which could only be done via airstrike.
Bond stayed behind to open the blast doors on Safin's facility to ensure the entire supply
of Heracles would be destroyed, only to encounter Safin one more time in the process.
As a parting gift before dying, Safin tainted the dormant Heracles nanobots in Bond's system
with the coded DNA of Madeleine and Mathilde, ensuring that he could never touch either
of them without killing them.
Confronted with his own death, Bond contacted Madeleine, who told him Mathilde was indeed
his daughter.
The airstrike missiles rained down as Bond looked out over the ocean, putting an end
to Daniel Craig's incarnation of the character just as he learned he'd left a legacy in the
world beyond violence.
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