The Chronological Order of Star Wars Films, in Case You've Forgotten

"The Phantom Menace" was the first big expansion of the Star Wars world, coming 16 years after "Return of the Jedi." The film showed what the Jedi Order and New Republic looked like before the Empire came and destroyed it all. "The Phantom Menace" also introduced Ewan McGregor as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi and Natalie Portman as Padmé Amidala, Luke and Leia's mother.