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Ever since he popularized the summer blockbuster with his breakout 1975 hit Jaws, Steven Spielberg has relentlessly honed his craft by making some of the most iconic movies of all time. This article will guide you through the proper viewing order for Spielberg’s filmography and where you can find each film online.
The streaming service that currently has the most Spielberg movies is Paramount+, but you’ll still need to rent many of them from sites like Apple and YouTube.
How to Watch Steven Spielberg Movies in Order of Release
Although Jaws (1975) is widely considered to be his breakout hit, Steven Spielberg’s feature film debut came a few years earlier with 1971’s Duel. Since then, he has directed a total of 36 features.
Except for Duel (which was a made-for-TV movie), this list is limited to Spielberg’s feature films.
Here’s how to watch Spielberg’s entire filmography in order of release:
| Movie | Description | Where to Watch |
| Duel (1971) | Originally made for ABC, this action-thriller follows a traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver) as he’s terrorized by a semi-truck driver through rural California. | Rent or buy |
| The Sugarland Express (1974) | In Spielberg’s theatrical debut, Goldie Hawn and William Atherton play a wife and husband who take a police officer hostage after losing their child to the state of Texas. | Rent or buy |
| Jaws (1975) | A New England resort town is terrorized by a deadly shark. | Starz |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | Follows a group of people as their lives are impacted by encounters with a UFO. | Amazon |
| 1941 (1979) | Set in Los Angeles in the immediate aftermath of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, this war comedy was written by future Back to the Future creators Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. | Rent or buy |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | The first installment in the Indiana Jones franchise sees Harrison Ford’s titular archaeologist on a quest to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | A young boy befriends an alien as he tries to find a way back to his home planet. | Rent or buy |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | A prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark that strikes a darker tone, this installment finds Indy going up against a deadly cult in India. | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| The Color Purple (1985) | Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, this coming-of-age period drama follows the life of Celie Harris as she grows up in rural Georgia. | Tubi |
| Empire of the Sun (1987) | Another coming-of-age film, this time based on J.G. Ballard’s 1984 novel of the same name. A young Christian Bale stars as Jim, a boy from a British family who becomes a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. | Rent or buy |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | Indiana Jones returns in this sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, as Indy joins forces with his estranged father (Sean Connery) to find the Holy Grail. | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Always (1989) | A remake of 1943’s A Guy Named Joe, Spielberg’s film moves the action to the modern day and follows a recently deceased aerial firefighter (Richard Dreyfuss) as his spirit influences the lives of those he left behind. | Rent or buy |
| Hook (1991) | Robin Williams stars as an adult Peter Pan who, having forgotten his childhood, reluctantly returns to Neverland to rescue his children from Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). | Rent or buy |
| Jurassic Park (1993) | Based on Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, Spielberg’s groundbreaking adaptation follows a group of visitors as they explore, and later try to escape, a dinosaur wildlife park. | Fubo TV Peacock USA |
| Schindler’s List (1993) | A historical epic based on the real-life story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. | Amazon |
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) | Spielberg’s Jurassic Park sequel picks up four years after the events of the original film, as plans are put in motion to open a new dinosaur theme park in San Diego. | Fubo TV Peacock USA |
| Amistad (1997) | A historical drama based on the 1839 La Amistad slave revolt, in which Mende tribesmen gained control of their Spanish captors’ ship off the coast of Cuba. | Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Saving Private Ryan (1998) | A World War II epic following a small squad of US soldiers as they attempt to locate a young private (Matt Damon) behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. | Fubo TV Peacock Paramount+ |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) | Set in a climate-ravaged future where humanoid robots have been developed to help offset a declining human population, the film follows a prototype child robot named David (Haley Joel Osment) as he journeys to find his place in the world. | Fubo TV MGM+ Paramount+ |
| Minority Report (2002) | Set in 2054, where police have developed technology to predict and prevent future crimes. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a detective who finds himself accused of the future murder of a man he’s never met. | Fubo TV MGM+ Paramount+ |
| Catch Me If You Can (2002) | Based on the real life of Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), a con man and expert forger who impersonated numerous professionals before his 18th birthday. | Paramount+ |
| The Terminal (2004) | Follows an Eastern European man (Tom Hanks) who becomes stranded at JFK airport after war breaks out in his home country. | Paramount+ Peacock |
| War of the Worlds (2005) | Spielberg reunited with Tom Cruise for this adaptation of H.G. Wells’ famous 1898 novel of the same name, in which aliens invade Earth with deadly war machines. | Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Munich (2005) | Following the murders of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, a small covert team is assembled to exact vengeance. | Rent or buy |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | Spielberg’s long-awaited return to the Indiana Jones series finds an older Indy reunited with an old flame (Karen Allen) and their son (Shia LaBeouf) as he outruns the Soviet KGB in a quest to find a telepathic crystal skull in Peru. | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | An animated adaptation of the classic series, Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin follows the titular adventurer (Jamie Bell) and his friend Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) as they search for a lost treasure. | Amazon Fubo TV MGM+ Paramount+ |
| War Horse (2011) | Based both on the 1982 novel and 2007 stage adaptation of the same name, War Horse follows a horse named Joey who’s forcibly parted from his owner at the outset of World War I and sold to the British army. | Rent or buy |
| Lincoln (2012) | Anchored by Daniel Day Lewis’s Academy Award-winning lead performance, Spielberg’s historical drama follows US President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to abolish slavery. | Rent or buy |
| Bridge of Spies (2015) | This Cold War historical drama follows a lawyer (Tom Hanks) charged with securing the release of a captured CIA pilot in exchange for a Soviet KGB agent (Mark Rylance). | Rent or buy |
| The BFG (2016) | Based on Roald Dahl’s 1982 novel of the same name, this fantasy adventure tells the story of a 10-year-old orphan named Sophie who befriends a “Big Friendly Giant.” | Disney+ |
| The Post (2017) | Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star in this historical drama that follows the Washington Post’s efforts to publish the Pentagon Papers, a set of classified documents detailing the United States’ 20-year political and military involvement in Vietnam. | Rent or buy |
| Ready Player One (2018) | Based on the popular novel of the same name, Ready Player One is set in 2045 and follows a group of young gamers who attempt to gain control of the OASIS virtual reality simulation before an evil corporation can. | Rent or buy |
| West Side Story (2021) | Spielberg’s adaptation of the long-running stage musical finds Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler in the lead roles as star-crossed lovers in 1950s New York City. | Disney+ Fubo TV FXNOW |
| The Fabelmans (2022) | A semi-biographical story loosely based on Spielberg’s youth, the story revolves around Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel Labelle) as he develops his love of filmmaking. | Paramount+ Fubo TV |
How to Watch Steven Spielberg Movies in Chronological Order
Outside of the direct sequels he’s made in franchises like Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s movies don’t have a shared chronology, although there are Easter eggs and loose connections between some of them.
However, his movies do span a wide swath of historical settings, so you can technically watch them in chronological order (from a historical perspective).
Here’s how:
| Movie | Time Period | Where to Watch |
| Amistad (1997) | 1837 | Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Lincoln (2012) | Early 1865 | Rent or buy |
| The Color Purple (1985) | Early 1900s | Tubi |
| War Horse (2011) | World War I (1914-18) | Rent or buy |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | 1935 | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | 1936 | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | 1938 | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| 1941 (1979) | December 1941 | Rent or buy |
| Empire of the Sun (1987) | During the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II (1937-45) | Rent or buy |
| Schindler's List (1993) | 1938-1945 | Amazon |
| Saving Private Ryan (1998) | June 1944 | Fubo TV Peacock Paramount+ |
| The Adventures of Tintin (2011) | Mid- to late 1940s | Amazon
Fubo TV MGM+ Paramount+ |
| The Fabelmans (2022) | 1952-65 | Paramount+ Fubo TV |
| West Side Story | 1957 | Disney+
Fubo TV FXNOW |
| Bridge of Spies (2015) | 1957 | Rent or buy |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | 1957 | Disney+ Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Catch Me If You Can (2002) | 1960s | Paramount+ |
| The Post (2017) | 1971 | Rent or buy |
| Duel (1971) | 1971 | Rent or buy |
| Munich (2005) | 1972 | Rent or buy |
| The Sugarland Express (1974) | 1974 | Rent or buy |
| Jaws (1975) | 1975 | Starz |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 1977 | Amazon |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | 1982 | Rent or buy |
| The BFG (2016) | 1980s | Disney+ |
| Always (1989) | 1989 | Rent or buy |
| Hook (1991) | 1991 | Rent or buy |
| Jurassic Park (1993) | 1993 | Fubo TV
Peacock USA |
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) | 1997 | Fubo TV
Peacock USA |
| The Terminal (2004) | 2003 or 2004 | Paramount+ Peacock |
| War of the Worlds (2005) | 2005 | Paramount+ Pluto TV |
| Ready Player One (2018) | 2045 | Rent or buy |
| Minority Report (2002) | 2054 | Fubo TV
MGM+ Paramount+ |
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) | 2100s | Fubo TV
MGM+ Paramount+ |
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