Divergent, an adaptation of the Veronica Roth book series, first came out at a time where YA book adaptations were everywhere. From Harry Potter to Twilight, without forgetting The Maze Runner and The Hunger Games, many a book hero and heroine was thrust to the big screen from the pages of a book. And fans couldn’t get enough.
Starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James, Divergent is a little bit of the best of both worlds when it comes to the genre. It’s got some Harry Potter, except unlike with the Wizarding World’s Sorting Hat choosing for you, here you choose your own faction, and a splash of The Hunger Games in that this world also requires some changing. Tris, our protagonist, chooses Dauntless—the brave faction, but soon discovers she is Divergent, meaning she doesn’t just fit into one faction. Except there isn’t a place for people like Tris anywhere. So she might just have to make it.
If you want to know in what order you should watch the three movies in this universe, here’s where to watch all the Divergent movies, in the order they were released.
Divergent
The first in the series sees Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) meet and Tris choose Dauntless and hide her true Divergent nature. For anyone who likes non-conformist stories, and heroines who go against the stereotype, Tris will hit the right spot. And though Divergent isn’t quite friendship-heavy as Vampire Academy, there’s still a focus on friendship, love and choice in this story about who you really are in a world that would divide people in different factions.
Insurgent
It’s all out war in the middle movie in the Divergent trilogy, Insurgent. Hard not to compare it to Catching Fire, the middle movie in the Hunger Games trilogy, except things are possibly even bleaker in this one. Except Tris and Four are a couple! But a couple who are fugitives on the run. Hardly a place for romance. Still, if you love thrills and non-stop action, while still being grounded in a dystopian future and YA drama, this is a good bet, particularly if you’re already invested in the story introduced in Divergent.
Allegiant
If you already committed to the story with Divergent and Insurgent, then you have to give Allegiant, the final story in the Divergent series a chance. Like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, the movie was supposed to be split into two parts, but for budget reasons that never happened. That means we get a mostly incomplete story that somehow still more or less makes sense with the story. And if you really need a closed ending, well, there’s always Allegiant the book, which has a little more than the movie does—even though that ending is controversial with some.
Where to watch all the Divergent movies streaming online
Check out our list below to find all the Divergent movies available to stream online in the US.
