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A fan film is a film made by fans. The contents can include canon material but any storylines made are not recognized as canon.

Most fan films are humorous and they are mostly fanon although some may contain elements or mentioning of canon.

Websites with fan films[]

  • Fan Film Follies is the Best Fan Films Coverage On The Web! Our coverage includes fan film video previews, news, podcasts and reviews. 
  • http://www.kuatengineer.webs.com/ This site is devoted to nothing but Star Wars fan films. It has the largest selection of Star Wars fan films anywhere, including a large library of films available for download.
  • TheForce.net is one of the biggest fan websites on the Internet and has the largest database of Star Wars fan films. The site also has many tips and tutorials on creating fan films.
  • https://jedisabacc.blogspot.com/ has a fan film library, as well as a project to restore some of the older ones called "Project Rya Kirsch".
  • AtomFilms.com has been holding awards for Fan Films since 2002.

Notable fan films (in alphabetical order)[]

  • Aussie Star Wars Episode 4: A New Bloke - "A long time ago; in a country far, far down under..." Hilarious low-budget spoof of A New Hope, with dialogue which verges on incomprehensible due to stiff accents and tons of Australian slang. Still great fun.
  • Birth of a Monster: A Star Wars Story - The tale of a boy named Malakili, better known as the Jabba the Hutt's Rancor-Keeper from Return of the Jedi.
  • Star Wars: Birth of a Sith - The story of how a young boy named Sheev Palpatine met up with his first Sith Master...Jar Jar Binks!? Features an impressive four-against-one lightsaber duel.
  • Blackstar Warrior...The Man With the Plan - Set in 2 BBY, ending just before Lando Calrissian's fateful sabacc tournament against Han Solo (in which the Millennium Falcon changed hands). Lando gets a job managing a casino owned by father-and-daughter asteroid-miners Mojo and Lava Moonblaster. Then Mojo mysteriously disappears following a high-stakes card game; it turns out he's gotten mixed up with the Rebel Alliance. Inspired by 1970s "blaxploitation" epics...complete with female Stormtroopers, in midriff-baring uniforms, who happen to know karate.
  • Blue - A young girl hopes to find her missing droid in Endor's perilous Drone Canyon.
  • The Boba Fett Chronicles: The Hunt For Varrada - Takes place between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Moff Rosh, Imperial Governor of the ice world known as Hippolyte 66, contracts everyone's favorite bounty hunter to find space pirate Varrada and fellow gangster Klo...before the Hutts do.
  • Star Wars: Broken Allegiance - Takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Two Sith apprentices, Calis and Ruan, defect from the Empire and are stranded on the world of Bothawui...where they're pitted against Korbain Thor, a deadly failed Jedi-turned-bounty hunter. Their two-against-one fight scene incorporates lightsabers, Force lightning, blasters, and unarmed combat. 
  • Bounty Trail - Takes place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and it tells about Boba Fett hunting a new target across the galaxy, but he's not the only hunter on the trail.
  • Star Wars: Challenge of the Sith - Takes place a thousand years before Revenge of the Sith. Darth Sedra (formerly Terra Nor) and her apprentices (Douz and Yun) launch a plan to bring down a Jedi training center. 
  • Star Wars: Chronicles of the Celestials - Set 300 years after Return of the Jedi. On a ruined world, Jedi Knight Sol Jaeger and Sith Acolyte Ermak Visen wage a murderous lightsaber duel for an enigmatic artifact: the Holocron of the Royals...which is currently in the hands of Caiera, a mysterious woman who swears allegiance to neither Light nor Dark. 
  • Conspiracy - Takes place a decade before A New Hope. It tells about ten of the Emperor's highest and most influential officials were ordered from their commands and ministries to meet in Coruscant, and the meeting that was held that day would change the galaxy forever. 
  • Star Wars: Contract of Evil - Takes place a few years before The Phantom Menace. On a barren world, Sith Lords Anarcis and Wroth present a rite of passage for Darth Terrax and then Darth Maul...by engaging both in an epic lightsaber duel.
  • Star Wars: Crimson Contention...Chapter IV: Spirit of Darkness - Set 300 years after Return of the Jedi. Two Knights of the Skywalker Praxeum confront a Sith specter. 
  • Star Wars: Crossroads of Destiny - Takes place around 47 BBY, when Obi-Wan Kenobi was a child. While training, he and his instructor Shaak-Ti are ambushed by Darth Kiloss. Her death is avenged by fellow Jedi Masters Evan Piell, Nam-Ji Ken, and Ki-Adi Mundi...who subsequently introduce Obi-Wan to his new trainer, Qui-Gon Jinn.  
  • Star Wars: DarkHeart - Set 3600 years before Revenge of the SithJedi Knight Sonan Varkess, with the help of Republic Navy Lieutenant Zora Kado, must locate the DarkHeart...a legendary Force relic which amplifies the Dark Side. Varkess's efforts to recover this deadly artifact pit him against Sith warriors led by fellow Padawan-turned-Inquisitor Bardon Karshek, who's already slain his and Sonan's Jedi Master Leska.  
  • Dark Jedi: A Star Wars Story (AKA Dark Centurions) - Takes place 6909 BBY, during the Century of Darkness...which follows the Second Great Schism between the Jedi and Sith Orders. A Hong Kong-style lightsaber duel rages on the world of Corbus between two old friends, Ama-Jin Dey and Maree...both of whom tragically succumb to the Dark Side.  
  • Star Wars: Dark Jedi (AKA Dark Acolytes) - Set shortly after Revenge of the Sith. Renegade Knights Sidian Ez-Dakit and Kallel Wryn are captured by Imperial troops and brought aboard the Death Star, where Darth Vader plans to make them Sith Acolytes. These "Acolytes", however, have an agenda of their own...  
  • Dark Legacy: a Star Wars Story - A Sith Acolyte, adopted at birth, must face her Master in a duel to the death with lightsabers...so that she can become a Master herself. Will she succeed where her late brother failed?  
  • Star Wars: Darkness - This four-part epic begins during the Galactic Rebellion and ends during the Yuuzhan Vong Wars.
    • Part 1: Falling Into Darkness - Jedi Master Basil spends twenty-five years hiding on the remote world of Delius with several apprentices. Then Basil and his Padawans are slain by Darth Verrier...with the lone exception of young Worf, whom Lady Verrier invites to become an Emperor's Hand under the supervision of Grand Admiral Alderson. Worf accepts; then both he and Verrier are caught between Alderson and fellow Grand Admiral Thrawn in a struggle to succeed the recently-deceased Sheev Palpatine as Galactic Emperor.  
    • Part 2: The Darkness Consumes -  
    • Part 3: Darkness Unleashed -  
    • Part 4: A Galaxy In Darkness - Now serving with the Imperial Navy, and battling the Yuuzhan Vong (who've just taken Coruscant) for control of the New Republic, Admiral Worf receives a disturbing message from Darth Voxis. Shortly thereafter, Worf has a reunion with his "late" wife Darth Verrier, who's very much alive...albeit suffering from a recently-developed Vong bio-plague. Worf seeks a cure for Lady Verrier on Dantooine, with aid from their Jedi Knight-daughter Ella, and from Ella's Wookiee sidekick Graraccor.  
  • Star Wars: The Dark Reckoning - Takes place shortly after the Galactic Rebellion. Darth Voroc is captured by Alliance agents, and scheduled to stand trial for Crimes Against the Galaxy. But that's just the beginning of the story...  
  • Star Wars: The Dark Redemption - Set just two days before A New Hope, this movie tells of how Mara Jade becomes an Emperor's Hand...while Rebel agents steal a tape of Death Star data, and while Han Solo blows a fortune in designer drugs from Jabba the Hutt.  
  • The Dark Resurgence - This movie creates a parallel universe wherein a new Empire rises to power in place of the First Order. This regime is controlled by Darth Vycus, and backed by the Sith Council on Korriban. Winner of Oniros' Best Fan Film award. 
  • Dark Resurrection - An Italian movie with impressive special effects, set around 200 ABY. Hailed as "truly amazing" by LucasFilm.
  • Dark Saga - This trilogy chronicles the training, and subsequent missions, of Darth Vader's secret apprentice Sol Sage...who ultimately plots to replace Sheev Palpatine as Galactic Emperor.
    • Dark Saber -     
    • Dark Soul - Sage recovers a lost lightsaber from the remote mining planet Tiereeth, and becomes a host to the Sith specter of its previous owner. Then he's pitted against Jedi Knight Kale Mandaro.     
  • Dark Seed - Set in 1010 BBY. Lord Kaan directs a Sith conquest of the Outer Rim, exploiting the Republic's ineptitude and ineffectiveness, while the Jedi plan to take back the lost territory. Both Orders prepare for the months of battle ahead, by recruiting and training Force-sensitive children from all corners of the Galaxy. On the world of Ao Prime, four Jedi Knights - Kirtan, Yoru, Daz, and Rida - have just found such a youngster when they're ambushed by a trio of Sith Lords. This Spanish-language movie was shot in Madrid over a 3-month period, on a budget of 300€ (for props, costumes, and food).   
  • Dark Trinity: A French-language movie set during the Knights of the Old Republic era.   
  • Days Past - A Jedi Knight and her Padawan clash over his having joined the Empire and become an Inquisitor.   
  • Dissonance - A tale of two apprentices. One is a Jedi Padawan; the other is Darth Rauin. Each shows skepticism toward his own warrior-religion, en route to a confrontation...much to the chagrin of their masters, Jedi Knight Cephas and (respectively) Darth Mortanus. Also worried about Lord Rauin's not-entirely-successful Sith indoctrination is Lord Mortanus's master, Darth Malstorm.    
  • Star Wars: The Distant Echo - As part of her Jedi training, Jaina Solo is tested with the Dark Side Tree by her Master Luke Skywalker...where she meets the Force Ghost of her aunt Mara Jade, and is engaged by her twin brother Jacen (Mara's killer) in lightsaber combat. In the process, Jaina gets an unsettling glimpse of things past and yet to come.   
  • Star Wars: Dogfight - This computer-animated short pits a detachment of 6 X-wing fighters (no colors, just numbers) against an Imperial Star Destroyer and its complement of TIE fighters. Much of the dialogue is recycled from the A New Hope (specifically, the Battle of Yavin). Takes place after Return of the Jedi.    
  • Star Wars: Down Under - This parody of everyone's favorite space opera centers on a ragtag band of galactic heroes, led by a young "bruce", who must battle the light-boomerang-wielding Sith troops of Darth Drongo...all in the name of truth, justice, and the Australian way. Give them cold beer or give them death, mate!   
  • Star Wars: Dresca - Winner of multiple awards from film festivals around the world...including Best Short Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Visual Effects.
  • Duality - Darth Oz pits two Sith apprentices, Lords Blight and Rive, against each other in lightsaber combat...as a rite of passage for both.
  • Emergence - Alenna, a Jedi Padawan, is blinded in an ambush and left for dead. Facing dangerous foes, both from within and from without, she must rediscover her purpose and identity as a Jedi Knight. (Praised for its creative use of Force abilities. Won multiple awards, including Best Picture and Best Music.)
  • Star Wars: Emergence of the Sith - Takes place shortly before The Phantom Menace. While tracking down spice smugglers on the world of Xerxes, Padawan Subo Dai is ambushed by Darth Maul. When Jedi Master Shinn Din Kada comes to Xerxes in search of his MIA apprentice, he and Bothan field agent H'wai Zark find themselves pinned down by an army of Neimoidian walkers and battle droids. (scheduled sequel - Star Wars: The Vanquished Foe)
  • Star Wars: Eternal - Takes place a decade or so prior to Knights of the Fallen Empire. The Jedi and Sith find themselves pitted against a common foe: the Imperium of Zakuul, led by Emperor Valkorion (AKA "His Immortal Highness"). The Emperor sends his finest agent, Senya Tirall, to seek out those who dare go against the Eternal regime...when she isn't raising their three offspring on the Wild Space world of Daeaan. Senya hopes to prevent daughter Vaylin from following in the dark footsteps of Arcann, Vaylin's elder brother, and his twin Thexan.
  • Star Wars: Exile - Takes place shortly after Revenge of the Sith. Jedi Master Boemana Tora and her Padawan Makal Lori seek refuge from the Imperial Inquisitors by fleeing to the Outer Rim world of Lothal. 
  • Fade - Sequel to Immolation. The world of Ruusan is engulfed in the Jedi Wars. The raging conflict leads to a stalemate between Jedi and Sith, with little hope of victory for either side. Then a Jedi Knight discovers a threat greater than the Sith Order, and ventures forth to uncover its secret. Now he must quell the doubts of the Jedi Order, while confronting the riddle of Darth Ansia's past. 
  • Star Wars Episode 7: The Fallen Foes - What this film lacks in special effects and costume/production design, it compensates for in storytelling and performances. Sith Lord Bush-baby, having taken control of the Empire, leads a manhunt for fugitive Jedi Master Faze Nias. Racing to find Master Nias first are: Hooks, Nias's Padawan, who's now a General in the Galactic Resistance; and Hooks's own apprentice, Guacamole. The stage is set for a showdown on the world of Tony-land. 
  • Star Wars: The Fallen Jedi - Set shortly after Revenge of the Sith. Not long after the execution of Order 66, Darth Vader sends his new apprentice to hunt down Jedi survivors on the Outer Rim world of Yael. 
  • Star Wars: Fall of a Sister - Two Jedi sisters, Jade and Elana, confront each other over a holocron stolen from Korriban...a holocron which could save their dying mother, but at what price? 
  • Star Wars: Fields - A series of French-language movies, set shortly before the Thrawn trilogy.
    • Field of Appearances   
    • Field of Destiny   
    • Field of Shadows   
    • Field of Divinity   
    • Field of Hope    
  • The Flow Awakens: a Parkour Battle - In a running (actually, make that FREE-RUNNING) lightsaber duel, Jedi Knights dodge TIE Fighters and hold off Sith Lords.    
  • Star Wars: Forced Alliance - Set 50 years after Return of the Jedi. Following Luke Skywalker's mysterious disappearance, Jedi Master Andril confronts Darth Teros in the Outer Rim.    
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  • The Formula - Heralded by some as one of the best and most original fan-films.
  • For the Love of the Film - 2005 Winner of the George Lucas Selects Award.
  • Star Wars Gangsta Rap - 2002 Winner of the Audience Choice Award.
  • Genesis of the Jedi - Set in 2032 BBY. Teenager X'orph, a human slave on the world of Typhon, plots revolution against his evil masters...by designing and building the first lightsaber. (WORK IN PROGRESS)
  • George Lucas in Love - Winner of the 2004 Pioneer Award
  • The Grey Jedi: A Star Wars Story - Rogue Knight Daivos Koran-Gar embarks on a lone quest to rescue his younger sister from the Sith Order.
  • Star Wars: Hand of the Empire - Set six years before the Battle of Yavin. Imperial Captain Quarrie leads his Mandalorian-backed Stormtrooper unit on a search-and-capture mission to the forest-world of Cilpar. Their efforts to locate Emperor Palpatine's missing "experiment" (an 11-year-old Mara Jade) are complicated by resistance from the Cilpar natives...and by the presence of fugitive Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus, who is also searching Cilpar for the Emperor's "package".
  • Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Takes place in 9 ABY. Grand Admiral Thrawn the Chiss leads the Empire toward sure victory over the New Republic. Is there hope? Computer-animated adaptation of the first novel in Timothy Zahn's trilogy.
  • Hearts of Kyber: A Star Wars Story - Three young Padawans - Jordyn, Kira, and Tarmus - search for kyber crystals in a remote cave...where they find their Jedi Master, Ellis, who has turned to the Dark Side.
  • Heir of the Unknown World: A Star Wars Story - Captain Evonyn, an Imperial Inquisitor, captures Knight Vayna Torr during a hunt for Jedi artifacts. Evonyn subsequently dispatches her aide-de-camp and several fellow agents to find Torr's missing lightsaber...which happens to be in the possession of Vayna's husband Esmund and their daughter Bindi.
  • Hoshino: A blind Jedi Master goes about becoming one with the Force.
  • How to build a Reverse Flow Smoker - Star Wars style - Jamie Oliver's Food Tube team is inspired by Star Wars for their Geek Week contribution to YouTube.
  • Hunted - Bounty hunter Gage, who also happens to be a Sith Acolyte, is swindled and then targeted for assassination by a fence...who, needless to say, isn't so clever as he thinks himself.
  • Star Wars: Hunt for the Holocron - On the remote world of Eliaen (an anagram of "Alien"), Bando Jinkuru and his brother Sahn are caught between Jedi Knight E'Din Kyle and Sith Inquisitor Dregr Jarrat in a race to acquire the legendary holocron of Kanek Suhnra...which has recently been discovered by archaeologist Oci Kent.  
  • Immolation - Near the end of the Jedi Wars, a lone Sith apprentice escapes to Ziost. A lone Jedi Knight goes AWOL to locate his nemesis. Sequel: Fade.  
  • Star Wars: Imperials - A computer-animated movie which begins during Return of the Jedi and ends just before The Truce at Bakura. Darth Vurumai, a secret apprentice of Emperor Palpatine, is hunting down Bothan spies on the world of Kothlis when she meets Dark Jedi Galek Dor...whom she recruits as an Imperial Inquisitor, and whom she gradually falls in love with. Then comes the Empire's defeat at Endor, after which Galek and Vurumai find themselves caught in the middle of a power struggle between two Grand Admirals: Thrawn (backed by Sate Pestage) and Alderson (a former Emperor's Hand).   
  • I.M.P.S.: The Relentless - A sequel to TROOPS, this popular series (eight 20-minute movies to date) depicts various operations of the IMPs (Imperial Military Personnel) stationed aboard the Revenge-class Heavy Carrier Relentless (a fan-created design). Today, they're ordered to "pacify" a crime-wave sweeping through the Davenport suburb of Gateway. Presented as an in-universe documentary.
  • I.M.P.S. 2: Assault on Norca - Stormtroopers of the 181st Mechanized Armor Division are sent in to take the snow-covered world of Norca II.
  • Inquisition - Set 4 years after Revenge of the Sith. Siblings Altan, Dylan, and Tisha have struggled to run their father's farm ever since he joined the Rebel Alliance only to be KIA. Now the family is divided over what to do regarding Linora, a fugitive Jedi Padawan they're hosting.
  • Jedi Heritage: On the remote world of Yagar Proxima, Wex & Jules wage a battle for family honor.
  • Knightfall: Produced by and starring members of the multi-chapter Saber Guild, this film pits a trio of Sith Lords (Darth Caliginous, Lord Carak, and Darth Zandryd) against a squad of Jedi Knights.
  • Star Wars: Knightquest - Set one week before A New Hope. Jedi-in-exile Ulic Cinn seeks to evade Imperial discovery with the help of Tara Sunarr.  
  • Knights of the Fallen Empire: Return of Revan - With countless armies and vast fleets of warships at his command, the tyrant Arcann leads his Eternal Empire against both the Galactic Republic and the Sith Dominion. Leading the fight against this common menace is Revan, with the help of a lone guerrilla warrior known as Firebrand.  
  • Knights of the Old Republic: Broken Souls - Darth Revan, with the help of his apprentice Meetra Surik, takes on Lord Nihilus. Also features an appearance by Bastila Shan.  
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Sith Empire - During the Old Republic era, after the failed attack on Alderaan, Darth Malgus, sends a squad of elite Sith warriors down to a republic-controlled planet to retrieve Coruscant's Planetary defense codes.
  • Star Wars: The Last Padawan - Takes place 4 years after Revenge of the Sith. A lone Jedi apprentice, armed only with his wits and the Force, must fight for his life on Dantooine.  
  • Star Wars: Legacy of the Force- Jedi Knight Jaina Solo is dispatched by the Jedi Council to find her twin brother Jacen, who has merged the remnants of the Galactic Empire and the New Republic to form a Second Galactic Alliance...and who in the process has fallen to the Dark Side of the Force, becoming Darth Caedus. Based on the same-titled series of SW Expanded Universe novels.   
  • Legend of Tython - Two skeptical young fugitives, Denatar and Amulus, take refuge on a world known as the birthplace of the Force; instead of finding peace, however, they are pitted against the Dark Side Specter of Darth Vorr.   
  • Star Wars: The Lesser Evil - Jedi Master Corran, along with his Padawan Aleco, pursue the Sith Lord Darth Zeanis to a remote planet. Aleco has mixed feelings about working with bounty hunter Kyler Skywalker on this mission, especially without the Jedi Council's approval or even their knowledge. However, after Lord Zeanis slays Master Corran, Skywalker proves to be a most valuable ally.   
  • Liberation - After months of being held captive by the Imperial navy, Rebel POW Vince Nurada seizes an opportunity to break out.
  • Star Wars: The Lost Patrol - Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebels' Outlaw Squadron goes MIA. Renegade Squadron sets out to find their comrades.
  • Lost Tales of the Republic: The Purge - Jedi Padawan  Ikaro Jinn struggles to survive in the aftermath of Order 66. 
  • Makazie One - Disguised as a Stormtrooper, an Imperial Inquisitor fights his way through Mandalorians to sniff out fugitive Jedi Batten Roxas.
  • Mandalorian Abridged - A satirical parody of "The Mandalorian". Follow the hapless space ninja as he battles soulless nostalgia trips, obnoxious cuteness, and filler...so much filler.
  • Star Wars: Mantle of the Force - Set during the reign of Darth Revan. Young spacer Trace Luminus, longing to control his own destiny, is mired in the turmoil of a war-torn galaxy. Dogged by bounty hunters, stranded on a forgotten world, with none but his droid standing by him, Trace must face the echoes of his own past. As all the winding roads of the Force open themselves to him, will he have what it takes to forge the future he craves?   
  • Star Wars: Master of Shadow - Set between the Yuuzhan Vong Wars and the Dark Nest Crisis. A hot-headed Jedi Padawan falls to the Dark Side in the process of avenging her slain master. She then goes on a rampage. Features appearances by Tenel-Ka Djo (Jacen Solo's future wife) and Exar Kun
  • My Roommate the Jedi - The Empire from invades Earth in search of an ancient weapon hidden by a Jedi Master. When an average guy discovers the weapon hidden in his LA apartment, it falls onto him and the Jedi's apprentice to keep it out of the Empire's hands.
  • Odyssey: A Star Wars Story - During the Rebellion, an Alliance captain recalls his first mission...and how he risked its failure by acting to prevent a civil execution by Imperial troops.  
  • The Padawan Trap - A family-friendly parody of Disney's The Parent Trap.  
  • Pathways: Betrayal; Deceit; Reckoning - This trilogy is set 1000 years before The Phantom Menace. Jedi Knight Si-Tran Kan searches for his AWOL Padawan, Lo'Kai Dral, on the barren world of Dais VI. Si-Tran discovers, quite the hard way, that Lo'Kai is now Darth Kabal...apprentice of Sith Lord Malphedor, who also happens to be Si-Tran's own fallen Master. With Si-Tran slain, Jedi Master Renni Yor calls in another Knight: Hed'Ra Dral, Lo'Kai's own sister. With an assist from bounty hunter Eltor Xax, Hed'Ra confronts her fallen brother on the world of Hegema Prime.   
  • Pink Five - 2003 Winner of the George Lucas Selects Award.
  • Pink Five Strikes Back - 2004 Winner of the Audience Choice Award.
  • Star Wars: Precious Cargo - Taking place 8 years after Revenge of the Sith, this movie chronicles the efforts of fugitive Jedi to protect Force-sensitive children from Emperor Palpatine's deadly Inquisitors
  • A Question of Faith - Set in 2000 BBY. Darth Calaval rises to the top of the Sith hierarchy; this pits him against Jedi Master Jerahl...who also happens to be Lord Calaval's own brother.  
  • Rampage Amid Tranquility - Set in 500 ABY. Two Jedi Knights must thwart a Sith Lord's plot to decimate their Order with a Force-toxin he has developed.   
  • Rebel Scum - A Rebel pilot is caught between capture/torture by the Empire and a frozen grave, after being abandoned during the Alliance's retreat from Hoth.  
  • Reborn - The Galactic Republic has finally risen from the ashes wrought by the Great Galactic War against the Sith Empire. Yet hostilities reach their peak just as the Republic desperately struggles to regain its supremacy over the Galaxy. The Jedi Order is determined to wipe out their Sith rivals once and for all. An interstellar mission to the outermost corners of the Galaxy, launched in hopes of ending the Cold War, threatens to result only in even greater death and destruction.  
  • Star Wars: Regrets of the Past - Set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Along with his Padawan Kaila Dain, fugitive Jedi Knight Pash Sularen is chased across the Alemania Sector by bounty hunter Varek Vallaros. (Principal photography took place in Austria from 2013 through 2015, followed by one year of post-production. The crew of 150 consisted mainly of working professionals in the Austrian film industry, who supported this project in their spare time.) 
  • Reign of the Fallen - Erik and Jaren, both Padawans of Jedi Master Oram Bren, vie for leadership of the planet Prias...which is threatened by a Sith invasion.  
  • Star Wars: Remnants of the Jedi - Takes place between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Bounty hunter Quin Thelcar hunts Jedi on Nar Shaddaa, for a reward of 1 million Imperial credits.
  • Remnants of the Order - Set 15 years after Revenge of the Sith. Young Pai's loyalties are divided between: her uncle Bolo, whom she doesn't know is a Rebel agent; and her boyfriend, an Imperial Stormtrooper. Then Pai discovers a lightsaber left over from the Clone Wars, and the weapon's long-dead owner speaks to her through the Force... 
  • Star Wars: Renaissance - Takes place 2 years after Revenge of the Sith. Drellis, an Emperor's Hand, helps Darth Vader stalk a handful of fugitive Jedi...particularly Keyor Alleguis and Nefer (mother of Mara) Jade. 2010 Winner of the Audience Choice Award, and possibly the most recognized Spanish-language fan-film.
  • Return of the Ewok - 2005 Winner of the Pioneer Award.
  • Star Wars: Revan - Having taken back the Galactic Republic from conquest by his former apprentice Darth Malak, a reformed Sith Lord ventures to the Unknown Regions. There, on the storm-planet Dromund Kaas, he confronts others from the Order of Darkness.
  • Star Wars: Revelations - A movie that exhibits some of the best amateur digital effects in the genre. Jedi “Seer” Tarayne Sunwarre and her sister Roux race against Zhanna, an Emperor's Hand, to locate a dangerously-powerful holocron.
  • Rise of the Dark Side - Set between the Yuuzhan Vong Wars and the Dark Nest Crisis. The Sith, led by Darth Crux and Lord Deceptus, have instigated a new war between two galactic powers...the Republic and the Empire. With Jedi Grandmaster Luke Skywalker slain in combat against Deceptus, the Jedi Order is now led by Luke's children Amber and Owen, and by their cousin Bail Solo. Backed by Alana Calrissian (Lando's daughter) and fellow Jedi Knight Zane Silverstar, our heroes confront the Sith on Malastare - where a battle already rages between Imperial and Republic forces. (WORK IN PROGRESS)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Ren - Jedi training has begun for young scavenger Rey, despite the reluctance of her Master Luke Skywalker. With the future of the Galaxy at stake, can Luke succeed with Rey where he failed with Ben Solo?
  • Rise of the Sith - Set in 2010 ABY. War rages between the Galactic Republic and the Mandalorian Empire, while Jedi Master Malachai Darkblade discovers that - contrary to his fellow Councilors' belief - the Sith Order is far from extinct. (WORK IN PROGRESS)
  • Star Wars: Rogue - Following the destruction of Alderaan, Imperial Naval Commander Jake Dinn becomes disillusioned with his role in Emperor Palpatine's Grand Scheme. Accordingly, Dinn steals a TIE Fighter and defects to a remote planet; there he encounters hospitality alternated with treachery.
  • Ryan vs. Dorkman - Two extensive, back-to-back lightsaber duels.
  • Star Wars: Search for the Lightsaber - Jaina Solo is sent to an uncharted world to recover a fellow Jedi's lightsaber, but her efforts are complicated by the presence of a Dark Jedi known only as the Ravager.
  • Seeds of Darkness - Takes place shortly after Revenge of the Sith. On a remote planet in the Outer Rim Territories dwells Rotal, a Jedi Master who knows many of the deeper secrets regarding Emperor Palpatine's resurrection of the Sith Order. The Emperor, recognizing Master Rotal as a great potential threat, dispatches an acolyte to find and slay the fugitive master -- lest our Jedi hero align himself with the newborn Rebel Alliance. Also seeking Master Rotal, for the Rebellion, is young Jedi Knight Mira Naolos...and the game, as they say, is on.
  • Star Wars: Shadow of the Jedi - As the Resistance armada flees before the dreaded First Order navy, the Jedi track down Kylo Ren in order to end his reign of terror.
  • Star Wars: Shadows and Ice - Set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, this movie finds Jedi Knight-turned-hermit Ben (formerly Obi-Wan) Kenobi monitoring Luke Skywalker's childhood on Tatooine...when he's engaged in lightsaber combat by an Emperor's Hand who recently massacred a Jedi shrine on the winter-planet Ilum. (The film was produced in seven months by Apsis Motion Pictures for its 13-year-old director, Gavin Moore, a Make-a-Wish grantee.)
  • Shrouded Destiny: A Star Wars Story - Bounty hunter Tulek engages Jedi Knight Brynne in combat (both armed and unarmed) over their mutual "Master".
  • Sins of the Jedi - Set in 9 BBY. With the Jedi Order being systematically destroyed by the Empire, three fugitive Knights search the galaxy for sanctuary from Emperor Palpatine's wrath...and from a fellow Jedi turned traitor.
  • Sith Apprentice - 2005 Winner of the Audience Choice Award.
  • Sith'ari - Takes place 3995 BBY. The Sith have emerged from the ruined world of Korriban to hunt down the Jedi Order. Recognizing this threat to their Order, the Jedi send two Knights to find more information. Meanwhile, tension mounts between Darth Rhemok and Darth Valikrus, and between their fellow Sith Lords...Darth Raphek, Darth Ankol, Darth Jesmon, Darth Malse, and Darth Korst.
  • Sith Relic - Takes place 4 ABY. After escaping the destruction of the Mark II Death Star, a lone member of Emperor Palpatine's Royal Guard force-lands on Endor. There, while putting his planetary-survival skills to work, he discovers the funeral pyre of Darth Vader...and, in turn, is discovered himself by a Sith Acolyte from the "Order of the Beyond".
  • Stormtroopers - Set in the Star Wars universe during the Andor & Rogue One timeline, Stormtroopers tells a Star Wars story from an alternative perspectives.
    • Episode 1 - The Raid - A platoon of Stormtroopers raid a remote Rebel Mining outpost.
    • Episode 2 - Siege - An Imperial Base Station is laid siege by battleship attack & haunting PTSD within its ranks.
  • Sith Tradition - Reserei, a Sith Acolyte, battles his own master Darth Malus as a rite of passage.
  • Sith Wars Episode 1: The Return of the Sith - In the first chapter of this series which covers events of the original Star Wars Episode 3, Darth Vader wants to track down and kill Master Yoda. Vader gathers various Sith Lords to accomplish the mission.
  • Sith Wars Episode 2: The Legacy of the Sith - In the second chapter of this series it follows the defeat of the Sith on Agamar. Vader discovers that a new apprentice is being trained by Master Yoda and Master Vaal, he knows he must stop him and kill all the remaining jedi order.
  • Skywalker's Apprentice - Takes place just after Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. Shortly following the destruction of Starkiller Base, one of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker's few surviving pupils gathers his own Padawans...and proceeds to teach them the ways of the Force. However, our Jedi's lessons and exercises promptly escalate into the real thing when a sinister Knight of Ren comes looking for "Master Luke".
  • Star Wars: Smuggler's Run - Takes place shortly after A New Hope. Imperial agents track a lost Jedi holocron which keeps changing hands through the Galactic Underworld. Features a Hong Kong-style fight scene. 
  • Star Wars: Spirits of the ForceFool's ErrandReflections of Evil - In this trilogy, which takes place shortly before the Yuuzhan Vong Wars, Kyle Katarn and his fellow Jedi (particularly Master Vette Bendeen and apprentice Kit Parson) get involved with an interplanetary revolution. Behind it all is the specter of Katarn's old nemesis Jerec, who’s already swayed headstrong trainee Spince Larrin to the Dark Side -- forcing Jaina Solo to slay her friend in defense of Kyle.  
  • There Can Be Only Two - On the world of Impetu, a trio of Acolytes vie for the title of Sith Lord. Who will prevail...Malum, Vondur, or Satera?
  • Threads of Destiny - Set in 98 ABY, this movie took nine years to complete, with 100+ people working on it from all over the world.
  • Three in the Afternoon - Winner of Best Short Comedy at the Wizard World Film Festival, Winner of the East Texas Short Film Festival.
  • TIE Fighter - A short anime (Japanese cartoon) about the discovery, and successful ambush, of a Rebel convoy by the Imperial Starfleet...told from the Empire's POV. 
  • Together - A look at the humanity which lies behind Stormtrooper armor...and at how the attachments among one Imperial officer and his outfit drive them to their own private rebellion.  
  • Star Wars: Tragedy of the Chosen One - Set a few years prior to The Force Awakens. While Luke Skywalker instructs a new generation of Jedi Knights, his sister Leia leads a Resistance movement against the tyrannical First Order. Her son, Ben Solo, is among those who train with Luke. Ben is strong with the Force but, as time passes, Luke senses a great and terrible conflict within his nephew. The desperate Jedi Master strives to prevent the boy from following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Darth Vader.  
  • Treasure of the Jedi - Adventurer Eira Oldassi and her droid-sidekick T5-88 dodge Imperial Stormtroopers to recover a lost cache of ancient Jedi holocrons. Complicating our heroes' efforts are bounty hunters Alkir Jes and Ion Meev.  
  • TROOPS - A parody of COPS which takes place during A New Hope. A camera crew follows Imperial Stormtroopers who interrogate and then execute a band of droid-stealing Jawas, shortly before (violently) settling a "domestic dispute" which involves Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle. 2002 Winner of the Pioneer Award; one of the first fan-films to be made, it still ranks among the best-known and most popular.
  • Turncoat - Three Jedi are sent by their Master Goran Rayd to hunt down fellow Knight Matthias Dryker, who has become a Sith Acolyte. Only when she finds Dryker does Gwyn Vaeda realize that Rayd has set them up.
  • Star Wars Uncut - 2010 Winner of the Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Media
  • Vader: Shards of the Past - For 8 months (since Revenge of the Sith), Darth Vader has enforced Emperor Palpatine's will. Torn between the loss of Padme Naberrie and the cursed life he now leads, Vader is lured (by a Jedi Master who survived Order 66) to the planet of the late Amidala's tomb. There he does what a Sith Lord's gotta do...
  • Vengeance In the Outer Rim - Jedi Knight Zaalia Ven is shot down and marooned on a remote world. How will she defend herself, and her hapless pilot, from the threat lurking within the forest?
  • Versus: the Way to Shadow - Takes place between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Darius is a fugitive Jedi Knight...the last of his Order, for all he knows. Now he's tracked relentlessly (albeit for very different reasons) by a Rebel agent, an Imperial inquisitor, a bounty hunter, and a Sith Lord.
  • White Armour - Basically Generation Kill meets Starship Troopers, this movie follows the Stormtroopers of an Imperial Recon Unit. Due to be released in April 2015.
  • Star Wars: Wrath of the Sith - Takes place shortly after Revenge of the Sith. Darth Vader dispatches two of his own Sith apprentices, Lords Volex and Ky-Sin, to hunt down two fugitive Jedi...Master Elius Echo, and his Padawan Kira Nyon.

Honorable mentions[]

  • Knights of the Old Republic: A Familiar Path; Veil of the Dark Side; The Circle of Fate; Rise of the Sith Lords; Hunger for the Force; Knights and the Darkness - This miniseries, based on the successful role-playing video game and its sequel, spans a half-decade between 3956 and 3951 BBY. The series consists of cut-scenes from Episodes 1 thru 6 (the complete RPG), edited together for YouTube. If you enjoyed the games...
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Five variations on the same miniseries, depending on which player-character is chosen; all five consist of cut-scenes from the online RPG (which spawned a franchise-within-a-franchise), edited together for YouTube. Set between 3643 and 3630 BBY.
    • Imperial Agent: The Hidden Masters
    • Jedi Consular: Children of the Emperor
    • Jedi Knight: Hunt for the Emperor; Shadow of Revan; Knights of the Fallen Empire; Knights of the Eternal Throne; Jedi Under Siege; Onslaught
    • Sith Inquisitor: Legacies of Old; Rise of the Emperor; Legend of the Outlander; War for the Eternal Throne; Gods From the Machine; Onslaught
    • Sith Warrior: The Emperor's Wrath

Timeline of fan films[]

  • 6909 BBY
    • Dark Centurions (Dark Jedi: A Star Wars Story)
  • 3995 BBY
    • Sith'ari
  • 3959 BBY (the Jedi Wars)
    • Mantle of the Force
    • Knights of the Old Republic - Broken Souls
    • Knights of the Old Republic - Revan
    • Knights of the Old Republic - Shadows of Corruption
    • Immolation
    • Fade
  • 3956 BBY
    • Knights of the Old Republic: Episode 1 - A Familiar Path
    • Knights of the Old Republic: Episode 2 - Veil of the Dark Side
    • Knights of the Old Republic: Episode 3 - The Circle of Fate
  • 3951 BBY
    • Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords - Episode 4: Rise of the Sith Lords
    • Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords - Episode 5: Hunger for the Force
    • Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords - Episode 6: Knights and the Darkness
  • Eternal
  • 3653 BBY
    • Star Wars: Knights of the Sith Empire
  • 3643 BBY
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Imperial Agent; Jedi Consular or Knight; Sith Inquisitor or Warrior
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rescue Mission
  • 3639 BBY
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rise of the Hutt Cartel
  • 3638 BBY
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Shadow of Revan
  • 3637 BBY
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire: Return of Revan
  • 3631 BBY
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Eternal Throne
  • 3630 BBY
    • Star Wars: The Old Republic - Onslaught
  • 3619 BBY
    • DarkHeart
  • 2032 BBY
    • Genesis of the Jedi
  • 2000 BBY
    • A Question of Faith
  • 1032 BBY
    • Pathways Trilogy
  • 1019 BBY
  • 1010 BBY
    • The Dark Seed
  • 47 BBY
    • Crossroads of Destiny
  • 34 BBY
  • 32 BBY
  • 29 BBY
    • Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Anakin
    • Rogue Planet
  • 28 - 23 BBY
    • Jedi Quest series (novels)
  • 22 BBY
    • SWE2: Attack of the Clones
    • The Clone Wars (film)
  • 20 BBY
  • 19 BBY
    • SWE3: Revenge of the Sith
    • Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight (novel)
    • Dark Acolytes (Star Wars: Dark Jedi)
    • Darth Vader: the Ninth Assassin; the Ghost Prison; the Lost Command (graphic novels)
    • Exile
    • The Fallen Jedi
    • Lost Tales of the Republic: the Purge
    • Seeds of Darkness
    • Wrath of the Sith
  • 18 BBY
    • Remnants of the Jedi
    • Vader: Shards of the Past
    • Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows (novel)
    • Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force (novel)
  • 17 BBY
    • Renaissance
    • Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows (graphic novel)
  • 15 BBY
    • Inquisition
    • The Last Padawan
    • Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO (TV series)
  • 14 BBY
    • Jedi: Fallen Order
  • 12 BBY
    • Regrets of the Past
    • Versus: the Way to Shadow
  • 11 BBY
    • Precious Cargo
    • A New Dawn
  • 10 BBY
  • 9 BBY
    • Shadows and Ice
    • Sins of the Jedi
  • 6 BBY
    • Hand of the Empire
  • 5 BBY
    • The Hutt Gambit (novel)
    • Star Wars Rebels (TV series)
  • 4 BBY
    • Remnants of the Order
    • The Lando Calrissian Adventures (novels)
  • 3 BBY
    • Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire (graphic novel)
  • 2 BBY
  • 1 BBY
    • Revelations
    • The Force Unleashed II
    • Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika (graphic novel)
    • Extinction
  • 1 Week BBY
  • 2 Days BBY
  • Battle of Yavin
    • Prelude to Hope
    • SWE4: A New Hope
    • TROOPS
    • The Lost Patrol
    • Rogue
    • Smuggler's Run
    • Vader's Quest
    • River of Chaos
    • Allegiance
    • Rebellion (graphic novel series)
    • Galaxy of Fear (novel series)
    • Graveyard of Alderaan
    • Shadow Stalker
  • 1 ABY
  • 2 ABY
    • Splinter of the Mind's Eye (novel & graphic novel)
  • 3 ABY
  • 4 ABY
    • SWE6: Return of the Jedi
    • Imperials
    • Sith Relic
    • The Truce at Bakura (novel)
    • Shadows of the Empire: Evolution
    • Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand
    • X-Wing Rogue Squadron series
    • The Dark Reckoning
    • Dogfight
  • 5 ABY
    • Jedi Prince series (novels)
    • Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
    • Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction
  • 9 ABY
    • Field series
    • The Mandalorian
    • Thrawn trilogy (novels)
  • 10 ABY
    • Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
    • Dark Empire trilogy (graphic novels)
  • 11 ABY
    • Crimson Empire (graphic novel)
    • Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood (graphic novel)
    • Jedi Academy trilogy (novels)
  • 12 ABY
    • Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
    • Callista trilogy (novels)
  • 13 ABY
    • Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost (graphic novel)
  • 14 ABY
    • The Crystal Star (novel)
    • Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
  • 16 ABY
    • Black Fleet Crisis trilogy (novels)
  • 17 ABY
    • The New Rebellion (novel)
  • 18 ABY
    • Corellian trilogy (novels)
  • 19 ABY
    • Hand of Thrawn duology (novels)
  • 22 ABY
    • Junior Jedi Knights series (novels)
  • 23 ABY
    • Young Jedi Knights series (novels)
  • 24 ABY
  • 25 - 29 ABY
  • 30 - 33 ABY
    • Master of Shadow
    • Rise of the Dark Side
    • Tragedy of the Chosen One
  • 34 ABY
    • The Dark Resurgence
    • SWE7: The Force Awakens
    • Shadow of the Jedi
    • SWE8: The Last Jedi
    • Skywalker's Apprentice
  • 35 ABY
    • SWE9: The Rise of Skywalker
    • The Dark Nest Crisis trilogy (the Killik Wars)
  • 40 - 41 ABY
  • 54 ABY
    • Forced Alliance
  • 98 ABY
    • Threads of Destiny
  • 130 - 140 ABY
    • Star Wars: Legacy Volumes 1-2 (graphic novels)
  • 200 ABY
  • 304 ABY
    • Chronicles of the Celestials
    • Crimson Contention 4: Spirit of Darkness
  • 500 ABY
    • Rampage Amid Tranquility
  • 2010 ABY
    • Rise of the Sith

Notable directors[]

"The galaxy is a big place. We're not asking for money, just recognition."
―Mazen Malawi, Director of Seeds of Darkness
  • Kevin Rubio - Director of TROOPS, later creator of official works such as the Tag and Bink comics
  • Rui Constantino - Director of Sith Wars Ep I The Return Of The Sith is on the right path to become a legend of fan film making if he succeeds to bring to us more chapters of the Sith legacy, in an interview on his channel he says, that he will do another 3 movies to this new saga in the Star Wars Universe.

See also[]

External links[]

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