Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall

RELEASED 23 Jun 20261h 19m★ 9.1 TMDB

Arkham Asylum has been destroyed, and all its inmates have been unleashed upon Gotham City. As Batman races to round up some of his greatest enemies, he is pushed to his physical and mental limits and into a final confrontation with a new threat: the man called Bane!

WATCH NOTE

First feature in the separate animated Knightfall trilogy; continue with Knightquest and Knightsend. No other DC screen adaptation is required. Animated Elseworlds collects separate continuities. Covers the feature only, excluding packaged featurettes. Jack Giffin voices Tim Drake's Robin, not Damian Wayne; Max Mittelman voices Jason Todd. Jean-Paul Valley/Azrael, Ventriloquist/Arnold Wesker/Scarface/Vincent and Catman have explicit adaptation credits but unresolved official character-directory matches. Additional supporting and silent appearances remain under review. Warner Bros. lists August 25, 2026 North American digital availability and 78 minutes; Rotten Tomatoes lists August 24 streaming and 79 minutes. Earliest worldwide release and exact runtime remain unresolved.

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Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall is title 45 of 78 in our Animated Elseworlds viewing sequence. Standalone animated films and separate continuities. Titles here do not form one timeline. This is a collection of separate adaptations, rather than a single continuous story.

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