A prequel is a short film released before the main episodes of a season, in order to entice viewers into watching the upcoming season.
Prequels[]
| Picture | Title | Season | Release date | Running time | |
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"Season 4 Prequel" | 4 | December 7, 2004 | 6 minutes | |
| Jack Bauer is fired from CTU Los Angeles. Tomas Sherek enters the United States of America through the Mexican border, and Jack begins his new life with Audrey Raines. | |||||
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"Season 5 Prequel" | 5 | December 6, 2005 | 7 minutes | |
| Jack Bauer meets with Chloe O'Brian in Chicago after Chloe discovers that her computer files involving Jack's autopsy were hacked into. | |||||
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"Season 6 Prequel" | 6 | December 5, 2006 | 7 minutes | |
| At a Chinese prison camp, Cheng Zhi tricks Jack Bauer to get information when Jack doesn't respond to being tortured. | |||||
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24: Redemption | 7 | November 23, 2008 | 1hr 42 minutes | |
| Forty-four months after Day 6, after sacrificing everything for his country, Jack Bauer is wanted by the U.S. government and now stands to lose the only thing he has left: his freedom. Volunteering with children in Africa, Bauer is called upon to stop a ruthless warlord from drafting innocent children into his murderous militia. In Washington, D.C., the transition teams of outgoing President Noah Daniels and President-elect Allison Taylor prepare for Taylor's inauguration at noon. | |||||
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The Raid | Legacy | January 9, 2017 | 6 minutes | |
| In Yemen, a squad of U.S. Army Rangers led by Sergeant Eric Carter carry out a dangerous mission to capture terrorist leader Ibrahim Bin-Khalid. | |||||