Steven Spielberg
Biography
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Among other accolades, he has received three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. According to Forbes, he is the wealthiest celebrity. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including Night Gallery and Columbo, he directed the television film Duel (1971), which Barry Diller approved. He made his theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express (1974), also beginning his decades-long collaboration with composer John Williams, with whom he has worked for all but five of his theatrical releases. He became a household name with the summer blockbuster Jaws (1975). He continued directing acclaimed escapist box-office hits with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and the original Indiana Jones trilogy (1981–1989). He also explored drama in The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987). In 1993, Spielberg directed back-to-back hits with the science fiction thriller Jurassic Park, the highest-grossing film at the time, and the epic historical drama Schindler's List, which has often been ranked among the greatest films ever made. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the latter as well as for the World War II epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). Spielberg has since directed the science fiction films A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Ready Player One (2018); the historical dramas Amistad (1997), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017); the comedies Catch Me If You Can (2002) and The Terminal (2004); the animated film The Adventures of Tintin (2011); the musical West Side Story (2021); and the family drama The Fabelmans (2022). Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series, among them Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), An American Tail (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Animaniacs (1993), Freakazoid! (1995), Twister (1996), Band of Brothers (2001) and Transformers (2007). Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2013, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people. In 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first-ever Time 100 Impact Award in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Spielberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk
The Blues Brothers
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Remembering Stanley Kubrick
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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Self (archive footage)
Où est parti E.T. ? L'Enfance selon Spielberg
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The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars
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50 Films to See Before You Die
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Vanilla Sky
Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)
Gremlins
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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
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Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
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Close Up
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Paul
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Spielberg on Spielberg
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Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
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Something's Coming: West Side Story
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The Music of E.T.: A Discussion with John Williams
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The Sci-Fi Boys
Nickelodeon Studios Opening Day Celebration!
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The Stories of West Side Story
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UFO's Are Here!
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The Shark Is Still Working
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
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Inventing David Geffen
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
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The Making of '1941'
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Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
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Voices from the List
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The Magical World of Chuck Jones
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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
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Looking Back to the Future
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Milius
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The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
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In the Teeth of Jaws
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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony
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Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
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The Moviemakers: Spielberg
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Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
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The Making of Poltergeist
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George Lucas: Creating an Empire
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Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
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Steven Spielberg, l'homme et l'enfant
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
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Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
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Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
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The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
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Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Backlot Tour Guide
Your Studio and You
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The Making of 'Jaws'
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Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America
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Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
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The Concert for Valor
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Jaws: The Restoration
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Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia
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Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return
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Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
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Science-fiction et paranoïa: La culture de la peur aux Etats-Unis
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit
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Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
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Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
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Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
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The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
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The Bloody Hundredth
Self (archive footage)
Back to Room 666
Amity Point Lifestation Worker (voice) (uncredited)
Jaws
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The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
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Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
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View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
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The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
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Back in Time
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The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
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Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
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Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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Mike Nichols: An American Master
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
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The Beginning: Making Episode I
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Chambre 666
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
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Filip och Fredrik träffar Steven Spielberg - i en minut
Self - Filmmaker
Music by John Williams
Self (2009)
Directed by John Ford
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Robert Capa: In Love and War
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Five Came Back
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Kubrick Remembered
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Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
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Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
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Spielberg
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Score: A Film Music Documentary
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Everything Is Copy
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Martin Scorsese Directs
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The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
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Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg
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Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
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David Lean: A Life in Film
Self (voice) (archive footage)
How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit
Narrator (voice)
Warner at War
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The Making of Back to the Future
Party Guest
Something Evil
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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
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Jeux vidéo: Les nouveaux maîtres du monde
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The Making of 'The Goonies'
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Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
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Kirk Douglas, l'indompté
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The Sound of 'Indiana Jones'
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The Music of 'Indiana Jones'
Self (archive footage)
Peter Falk Versus Columbo
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Star Wars: Music by John Williams
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
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Forever Hollywood
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Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg
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Trumbull Land
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Spielberg on Kubrick
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The 'E.T.' Journals
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Three Kinds of Close Encounters
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Return to Jurassic Park
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Lost in the Garden of the World
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The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
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New England Our Way
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From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
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The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
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Tales from the Future
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The Joe Spinell Story
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Double Dare
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
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The Making of 'The Lost World'
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Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
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American Beauty: Look Closer...
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In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
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Blacks and Jews
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Lincoln: An American Journey
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Jaws: The Inside Story
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A Century of Cinema
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The Universal Story
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Searching for Orson
Tourist at Airport (uncredited)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Alien on TV Monitor (uncredited)
Men in Black
Popcorn-Eating Man (uncredited)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Steven Spielberg / Famous Director ('Austinpussy')
Austin Powers in Goldmember
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Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
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AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams
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Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues
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The Godfather: When the Shooting Stopped
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From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures
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Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
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Indiana Jones : à la recherche de l'âge d'or perdu
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Fog City Mavericks
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Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
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Altman
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Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer
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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut, le scénario de ma vie
Self (uncredited)
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
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The Middle Passage
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
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The Making of 'The Color Purple'
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The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft
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Creating A.I.
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
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Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
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Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
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Inside the Worlds of Epic Universe
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A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
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Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan
Self (archive footage)
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
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The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
176
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-12-18
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
Steven Allan Spielberg