These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Five Steven Spielberg movies have been about aliens, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Disclosure Day, but ...

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...

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With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

Fire In the Sky was based on the 1978 book The Walton Experience from real-life logger Travis Walton. In it, Walton details ...

Sci-fi is something of a specialty for Spielberg, especially when there are aliens involved. Read on for more.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spielberg and ET looking at each other - Aaron Rapoport/Getty Images Steven Spielberg might be best known for "Jaws" and "Jurassic ...