How To Watch Top Gun: Maverick Online And The 1986 Tom Cruise Movie

Tom Cruise pumps his fist in excitement in Top Gun: Maverick.
(Image credit: Paramount)

It has been decades since we first strapped into a jet with US Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell with his need for speed in Tony Scott’s quintessential ‘80s movie Top Gun, but it seems like the general population’s love of high-octane action drama is burning hotter and brighter than ever before. This could be due to great storytelling, flight sequences, and the career-defining performance by Tom Cruise, or it could be due to the fact that the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick has finally been released and is streaming on Paramount+ from December 22.

If you are one of the many that helped Cruise achieve the biggest opening weekend of his career with the sequel and are planning to watch the original or the sequel along with other new and recent movies streaming at home, then you have come to the right place. Below is everything you need to know about how to watch Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick online and where.

Where To Watch Top Gun Streaming

Top Gun is one of the most successful movies ever released by Paramount Pictures, so it should come as no surprise that you can watch Maverick take his renegade attitude and impressive skills behind the yoke of his F/A-18 Super Hornet to the not-so-friendly skies on the company’s own streaming service. Hopefully, the  blockbuster remains one of the best movies on Paramount+ for a while. So, if you have a Paramount+ subscription, you are well on your way to watching the beloved classic in all its glory. 

Stream Top Gun on Paramount+.

Where Is Top Gun: Maverick Streaming Online?

Top Gun: Maverick is the most successful movie ever released by Paramount Pictures domestically, so it is no surprise that it will be joining its 1986 predecessor on the company’s own streaming platform. The sequel will make its debut as a streaming exclusive on Paramount+ on Thursday, December 22, 2022, all over the world, except for France and South Korea, where it will be available in 2023.

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Paramount Plus: save 50% on your first year
Home to CBS TV shows and Paramount movies, subscribe to Paramount Plus and watch titles such as Yellowstone's 1883, The Good Fight, on top of live sports including NFL and UEFA. Prepay for a year now and save 50% using the code WINTER50. That brings the Essential plan down to $24.99 upfront (down from $49.99), or go ad-free with Premium and stream offline for $49.99 (down from $99.99) for a year.

Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun

(Image credit: Paramount)

Other Ways To Watch The Top Gun Movies

Streaming isn’t the only way you can enjoy Top Gun from home. In fact, there are a number of different routes you can take on your journey revisiting one of the best action movies of all time. If you have a 4K Blu-ray player and you’re looking for something to push it to the limit, you should pick up a copy of Top Gun on 4K UHD and take in all the action like never before.

Top Gun: Maverick initially debuted as a digital purchase on Amazon Video in August for $19.99. It is now available to watch at home (whether you are experiencing it for the first time or all over again) on UHD as a rental for $5.99 or a purchase for $12.99.

Rent or buy Top Gun on Amazon.
Buy Top Gun on 4K/Blu-ray on Amazon.
Buy Top Gun: Maverick on Amazon.

Check out what Tom Cruise has next in store (namely Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One) on our upcoming 2023 movies schedule. 

Jason Wiese
Content Writer

Jason Wiese writes feature stories for CinemaBlend. His occupation results from years dreaming of a filmmaking career, settling on a "professional film fan" career, studying journalism at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO (where he served as Culture Editor for its student-run print and online publications), and a brief stint of reviewing movies for fun. He would later continue that side-hustle of film criticism on TikTok (@wiesewisdom), where he posts videos on a semi-weekly basis. Look for his name in almost any article about Batman.