Full Disclosure, These Are the Best Steven Spielberg Movies

Why it matters

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is a return to the summer blockbuster genre he basically created, but you're going to need a bigger boat for this sail through the Oscar winner's best films.

Key takeaways

• He wanted to meet the hero's dad, he told the New York Times Magazine in 2026, "and I want them to have had years of estrangement and father neglecting son because the father was a workaholic.
• And it all started with the intrepid archaeology professor thwarting Nazis and snakes in this 1981 epic.
• And Spielberg thought so, too, recalling to NBC News in 2018 that, when he first read the 1982 book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, "I was making movies about extraterrestrials and movies about Indiana Jones and sharks.