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Amblin Entertainment is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film and television production company founded by critically and financially successful director, Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
, Kathleen Kennedy, a film producer and Frank Marshall another film producer in 1981. Amblin is only a production company, and has never distributed its own movies, nor has it fully financed its productions, needing the help of the studios that distributed it. Its logo features the silhouette of E.T.






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Amblin Entertainment is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film and television production company founded by critically and financially successful director, Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
, Kathleen Kennedy, a film producer and Frank Marshall another film producer in 1981. Amblin is only a production company, and has never distributed its own movies, nor has it fully financed its productions, needing the help of the studios that distributed it. Its logo features the silhouette of E.T. riding in the basket on Elliot's bicycle flying in front of the moon from the movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 in film American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone and Peter Coyote....
.

Amblin is named after Spielberg's first commercially-released film, Amblin'
Amblin'

" Amblin' " is a short subject released in 1968 in film. It is the first completed film shot by Steven Spielberg on 35mm. The film is a short story set during the Hippie era of the late '60s about a young couple who meet up in the desert, become friends, then lovers and make their way to a paradisaical beach....
 (1968), a short independent film about a man and woman thumbing
Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other road vehicle to travel a distance that may either be short or long....
 through the desert. The film, which cost $15,000 to produce, was shown for Universal Studios
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 and won Spielberg more directing roles. Although Spielberg owns shares in both Amblin and DreamWorks, it's Universal that distributes many Amblin productions and Amblin operates out of a building on the Universal lot.

In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors including Joe Dante
Joe Dante

Joseph James "Joe" Dante is an United States film director and Film producer of films generally with humorous and scifi content.His films include Piranha and The Howling , both from scripts by John Sayles; Segment 3 of Twilight Zone: The Movie ; Gremlins , his first major hit, and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch...
 (Gremlins
Gremlins

Gremlins is an Cinema of the United States comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 in film by Warner Bros. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters....
, Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 in film Cinema of the United States comedy horror film, and a sequel to Gremlins . It was directed by Joe Dante and written by Charles S....
, Innerspace
Innerspace

Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 in film sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage....
, Small Soldiers
Small Soldiers

Small Soldiers is a 1998 in film action film/science fiction film featuring Gregory Smith and Kirsten Dunst and the voice talents of Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella....
), Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future trilogy films as well as the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit , though in t...
 (Back to the Future: The Trilogy
Back to the Future trilogy

Back to the Future is a comedy science fiction film trilogy written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, directed by Zemeckis, and distributed by Universal Pictures....
, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 fantasy film comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg and based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?....
), Brian Levant
Brian Levant

Brian Levant is an United States movie and television director and producer. He began his career writing for several critically acclaimed television series including, The Jeffersons, Happy Days and Mork and Mindy....
 (the Flintstones
The Flintstones (film)

The Flintstones is a 1994 in film live action film directed by Brian Levant, and based on the prime time Hanna-Barbera animated television sitcom The Flintstones....
 duology), Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris is an United States film director, film producer, and screenwriter....
 (the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals
The Little Rascals (1994 film)

The Little Rascals is a 1993 in film comedy film produced by Amblin Entertainment, and released by Universal Pictures on August 5, 1993. The film is an adaptation of Hal Roach's Our Gang short subjects of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s , which centered around the adventures of a group of neighborhood children....
), Don Bluth
Don Bluth

Donald Virgil Bluth is an United States animator and independent studio owner....
 (An American Tail
An American Tail

An American Tail is a 1986 in film animation film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986....
, The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time

The Land Before Time is a 1988 theatrical animated film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth. It was originally released by Universal Studios and Sullivan Bluth Studios....
), Gil Kenan
Gil Kenan

Gil Kenan is an Israeli-American film director. He received his Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. He directed the 2006 film Monster House , executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis....
 (Monster House
Monster House (film)

Monster House is an Academy Award-nominated United States 2006 in film computer animation horror film released on July 21, 2006. Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, this is the first time since Back to the Future Part III that both have been involved together....
), Richard Donner
Richard Donner

Richard Donner is an United States film director, film producer, and comic book writer. The production company, The Donners' Company, is owned by Donner and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner....
 (The Goonies
The Goonies

The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
), Jan De Bont
Jan de Bont

Jan de Bont is a Netherlands cinematographer, film producer, and film director....
 (Twister), Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld

Barry Sonnenfeld is an Emmy Award-winning United States filmmaker and television director. He worked as cinematographer for the Coen Brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as Men in Black ....
 (the Men in Black duology) and Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
 (Cape Fear
Cape Fear (1991 film)

Cape Fear is a 1991 in film thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a remake of the Cape Fear and tells the story of a family man, a former public defender, whose family is threatened by a convicted rapist who wants vengeance for having been imprisoned for 14 years because of the lawyer's purposefully faulty legal defense tact...
) and Joe Johnston
Joe Johnston

Joseph Eggleston "Joe" Johnston III is an United States film director, responsible for such films as Hidalgo , Jurassic Park III, October Sky, and Jumanji , amongst others....
 (Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park III

Jurassic Park III is the 2001 in film sequel to the 1997 in film film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and is the first in the series that is neither based on a book by Michael Crichton nor directed by Steven Spielberg....
).

Amblin's most critically acclaimed production is Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
 (1993). The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 and won seven, including Best Picture. The movie has also become a teaching tool in high schools and universities. A companion study guide, Facing History, was prepared through a grant from Amblin and Universal.

Amblin's television series credits include Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction....
, seaQuest DSV
SeaQuest DSV

seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996....
, Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures

Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated television series created and produced as a collaborative effort between Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros....
, Animaniacs
Animaniacs

Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as Animaniacs, is an American list of animated television series, distributed by Warner Bros....
, Pinky and the Brain
Pinky and the Brain

Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters who have starred in the American animated television series Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain....
, Freakazoid, Earth 2
Earth 2 (TV series)

Earth 2 is a short-lived science fiction television series which aired on NBC from November 6, 1994 to June 4, 1995. The show was canceled after one season of 22 episodes....
, ER
ER (TV series)

ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
, and Fievel's American Tails
Fievel's American Tails

Fievel's American Tails is an animation television series, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios....
. Fievel's American Tails and others were produced by Amblin's animation division Amblimation
Amblimation

Amblimation was the animation production arm of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and was active from 1991 until about 1995.The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK....
, which was active from 1991 until 1995.

Another studio which has distributed many Amblin productions is Warner Bros. Entertainment
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
. DreamWorks
DreamWorks

DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, is a major film studios United States film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming....
 (which was co-founded by Spielberg) has distributed a number of Amblin productions since 1994.

Motion pictures

2011
  • Interstellar
2010
  • Lincoln
  • Tintin
    Tintin (film)

    The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn is a 2011 motion capture 3-D film based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgium artist Georges "Herg?" Remi....
2009
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
2006
  • Flags of Our Fathers
    Flags of Our Fathers (film)

    Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr....
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
    Letters from Iwo Jima

    is a 2006 in film war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood whose cast includes Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers , which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoin...
  • Monster House
    Monster House

    Monster House was a Discovery Channel television program that documented the themed remodeling of a residence in a five-day time frame.In early 2006, Discovery Channel announced the show had been canceled and the final episode, titled "Farewell House", aired in February....
2005
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

    Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and directed by Rob Marshall....
  • Munich
    Munich (film)

    Munich is a 2005 in film fictional film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen....
  • The Legend of Zorro
    The Legend of Zorro

    The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 in film sequel to 1998 in film The Mask of Zorro, both directed by Martin Campbell. Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles as the Zorro and his spouse, and Rufus Sewell stars as the villain....
  • War of the Worlds
    War of the Worlds (2005 film)

    War of the Worlds is a 2005 in film science fiction-disaster film based on H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin....
2002
  • Men in Black II
    Men in Black II

    Men in Black II is a 2002 in film science fiction comedy film action film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The movie also stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson and Rip Torn....
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (20th anniversary re-release)
  • Minority Report
    Minority Report (film)

    Minority Report is a 2002 in film science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story The Minority Report and it is one of several Philip K....
2001
  • Jurassic Park III
    Jurassic Park III

    Jurassic Park III is the 2001 in film sequel to the 1997 in film film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and is the first in the series that is neither based on a book by Michael Crichton nor directed by Steven Spielberg....
  • A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
    A.I. (film)

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a 2001 science fiction film directed, produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg. Based on the short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, the film stars Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Jude Law, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas and William Hurt....
2000
  • The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is a 2000 feature film based on Hanna-Barbera's animated television classic, The Flintstones, produced by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures....
1999
  • In Dreams
    In Dreams (film)

    In Dreams is a psychological thriller directed by Neil Jordan, released in 1999 in film. The film has a running time of 1 hour and 40 minutes....
1998
  • The Mask of Zorro
    The Mask of Zorro

    The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 in film swashbuckler film directed by Martin Campbell, and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson ....
  • Saving Private Ryan
    Saving Private Ryan

    Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States war film set during the Invasion of Normandy of Normandy in World War II. It was film director by Steven Spielberg and Screenplay by Robert Rodat....
  • Small Soldiers
    Small Soldiers

    Small Soldiers is a 1998 in film action film/science fiction film featuring Gregory Smith and Kirsten Dunst and the voice talents of Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella....
1997
  • Men in Black
    Men in Black (film)

    Men in Black is a 1997 in film science fiction film comedy film action film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio....
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park
    The Lost World: Jurassic Park

    The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 in film American science fiction film and the second Jurassic Park film as part of the Jurassic Park franchise....
1996
  • The Trigger Effect
    The Trigger Effect

    The Trigger Effect is a 1996 movie starring Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue and Dermot Mulroney....
  • Twister
1995
  • Balto
    Balto (film)

    Balto is a 1995 in film animated/live action produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1995....
  • Casper
    Casper (film)

    Casper is a 1995 in film live-action feature film based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons and comic strips. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery....
  • How to Make an American Quilt
    How to Make an American Quilt

    How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 in film movie which was directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and stars Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn and Anne Bancroft....
  • The Bridges of Madison County
    The Bridges of Madison County (film)

    The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 in film romance film based on The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. It was made by Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions and Warner Bros....
  • To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
1994
  • Little Giants
    Little Giants

    Little Giants is a 1994 in film family film comedy film, starring Rick Moranis and Ed O'Neill as brothers in a small Ohio town, coaching rival Pee-Wee Football teams....
  • The Flintstones
    The Flintstones (film)

    The Flintstones is a 1994 in film live action film directed by Brian Levant, and based on the prime time Hanna-Barbera animated television sitcom The Flintstones....
  • The Little Rascals
1993
  • A Far Off Place
    A Far Off Place

    A Far Off Place is a Walt Disney Pictures and Amblin Entertainment film from 1993 in film, starring Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Embry and Jack Thompson ....
  • Jurassic Park
    Jurassic Park (film)

    Jurassic Park is a 1993 in film science fiction film Thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton....
  • Schindler's List
    Schindler's List

    Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
  • We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)

    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is an animated film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1993....
1992
  • Noises Off...
    Noises Off...

    Noises Off is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The screenplay by Marty Kaplan is based on the Noises Off by Michael Frayn....
1991
  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is an animation produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, presented by Universal Pictures and originally released to movie theatres in 1991....
  • A Brief History of Time
    A Brief History of Time (film)

    A Brief History of Time is a 1991 documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris. Its title derives from Hawking's bestselling A Brief History of Time, but whereas the book is an explanation of cosmology, the film is a biography of Hawking's life, featuring interviews with family members, colleagues, and hi...
  • Cape Fear
    Cape Fear (1991 film)

    Cape Fear is a 1991 in film thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a remake of the Cape Fear and tells the story of a family man, a former public defender, whose family is threatened by a convicted rapist who wants vengeance for having been imprisoned for 14 years because of the lawyer's purposefully faulty legal defense tact...
  • Hook
    Hook (film)

    Hook is a 1991 family film fantasy film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott....
1990
  • Arachnophobia
    Arachnophobia (film)

    Arachnophobia is a 1990 in film United States horror film-comedy film directed by Frank Marshall and starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman....
  • Back to the Future Part III
    Back to the Future Part III

    Back to the Future Part III is the third and final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. The film is a science fiction western, using the time travel premise of the series to take Marty McFly and Emmett Brown back to the American Old West of 1885....
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    Gremlins 2: The New Batch

    Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 in film Cinema of the United States comedy horror film, and a sequel to Gremlins . It was directed by Joe Dante and written by Charles S....
  • Joe Versus the Volcano
    Joe Versus the Volcano

    Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 in film comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.The first film directed by screenwriter John Patrick Shanley, it was also the first of three films pairing Hanks and Ryan....
1989
  • Always
    Always (film)

    Always is a 1989 in film romantic drama directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Brad Johnson ....
  • Back to the Future Part II
    Back to the Future Part II

    Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 in film and a sequel to the 1985 in film Back to the Future. Like the previous film, it was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale....
  • Dad
    Dad (film)

    Dad is an 1989 comedy-drama based on William Wharton 's novel of the same name. The movie stars Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Spacey and Ethan Hawke, and was written and directed by Gary David Goldberg....
1988
  • The Land Before Time
    The Land Before Time

    The Land Before Time is a 1988 theatrical animated film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth. It was originally released by Universal Studios and Sullivan Bluth Studios....
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 fantasy film comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg and based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?....
1987
  • *batteries not included
    *batteries not included

    *batteries not included is a 1987 in film family film-science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins about small Extraterrestrials in fiction living machines that save an apartment block under threat from property development....
  • Empire of the Sun
    Empire of the Sun (film)

    Empire of the Sun is a 1987 coming of age war film based on J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the Empire of the Sun. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson and Nigel Havers....
  • Harry and the Hendersons
    Harry and the Hendersons

    Harry and the Hendersons, a 1987 United States film directed and produced by William Dear, and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Lainie Kazan and Don Ameche, is the tragi-comic story of a family's encounter with the Cryptozoology creature Bigfoot....
  • Innerspace
    Innerspace

    Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 in film sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage....
1986
  • An American Tail
    An American Tail

    An American Tail is a 1986 in film animation film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and directed by Don Bluth, originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986....
  • The Money Pit
    The Money Pit

    The Money Pit is a 1986 in film comedy film, and a remake of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Directed by Richard Benjamin and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the film stars Tom Hanks as Walter Fielding Jr., an entertainment industry lawyer, and Shelley Long as Anna Crowley, a violist, along with Alexander Godunov, who pl...
1985
  • Back to the Future
    Back to the Future

    Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction film adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, co-written by Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg....
  • The Color Purple
    The Color Purple (film)

    The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....
  • Fandango
    Fandango (1985 film)

    Fandango was originally a 30 minute black and white student film titled "Proof" by Kevin Reynolds while he was a student at USC Film. It was a parody of Greek life at his alma mater Baylor University, however due to his father's presidency at the school he did not wish to portray the Baptist institution in an unfavorable light and gave i...
  • The Goonies
    The Goonies

    The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
  • Young Sherlock Holmes
    Young Sherlock Holmes

    Young Sherlock Holmes , directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus , depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school....
1984
  • Gremlins
    Gremlins

    Gremlins is an Cinema of the United States comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 in film by Warner Bros. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters....
1982
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 in film American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone and Peter Coyote....
1981
  • Continental Divide


Television shows

  • Amazing Stories
    Amazing Stories (TV series)

    Amazing Stories is a television anthology series created by Steven Spielberg. It ran on NBC from 1985 to 1987. Each episode featured an independent story, similar to programs as The Twilight Zone ....
     (1985-1987)
  • Tiny Toon Adventures
    Tiny Toon Adventures

    Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated television series created and produced as a collaborative effort between Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros....
     (1990-1992)
  • Harry and the Hendersons
    Harry and the Hendersons (TV series)

    Harry and the Hendersons is an United States sitcom based on the Harry and the Hendersons, produced by Amblin Entertainment for Universal Television....
     (1991-1993)
  • Back to the Future: The Animated Series
    Back to the Future: The Animated Series

    Back to the Future: The Animated Series is an animated series based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films. The series lasted two seasons, each lasting 13 episodes, and ran on CBS from September 7, 1991 to November 28, 1992....
     (1991-1992)
  • Fievel's American Tails
    Fievel's American Tails

    Fievel's American Tails is an animation television series, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios....
     (1992)
  • The Plucky Duck Show
    The Plucky Duck Show

    The Plucky Duck Show was an animated television series created by Warner Bros. It was a short-lived spin-off of Tiny Toon Adventures, the first and highly popular collaboration between Steven Spielberg and the newly reborn Warner Bros....
     (1992)
  • Family Dog (1993)
  • Animaniacs
    Animaniacs

    Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as Animaniacs, is an American list of animated television series, distributed by Warner Bros....
     (1993-1998)
  • seaQuest DSV
    SeaQuest DSV

    seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996....
     (1993-1996)
  • ER
    ER (TV series)

    ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
     (1994-2009)
  • Earth 2
    Earth 2 (TV series)

    Earth 2 is a short-lived science fiction television series which aired on NBC from November 6, 1994 to June 4, 1995. The show was canceled after one season of 22 episodes....
     (1994-1995)
  • Fudge
    Fudge (TV series)

    Fudge was an American TV series produced by Amblin Entertainment in association with Universal_Media_Studios#MCA_Television, based on a series of Judy Blume books about a young boy named Fudge....
     (1995)
  • Freakazoid!
    Freakazoid!

    Freakazoid! is an United States animated television series, produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation that aired for two seasons from September 9, 1995 to June 1 1997....
     (1995-1997)
  • Pinky and the Brain
    Pinky and the Brain

    Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters who have starred in the American animated television series Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain....
     (1995-1998)
  • The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
    The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper

    The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper was an animated television spin-off of the feature film Casper , which, in turn, was based on the Harvey Comics character of Casper the Friendly Ghost....
     (1996-1998)
  • Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain
    Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain

    Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain for short, is the retooling of the United States spin-off animated television series Pinky and the Brain, with the title characters being joined by Elmyra Duff from their other show Tiny Toon Adventures....
     (1998-1999)
  • On the Lot
    On the Lot

    On the Lot was a short-lived reality show competition produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. The show, which aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, featured filmmakers competing in weekly elimination competitions, with the ultimate prize of a million dollar development deal at DreamWorks....
     (2007)
  • The Land Before Time
    The Land Before Time (TV series)

    The Land Before Time is a North American animated television series, based on characters from The Land Before Time American film series created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss....
     (2007-)
  • The Talisman
    The Talisman

    The Talisman may refer to:* The Talisman , a ballet by the choreographer Marius Petipa and the composer Riccardo Drigo* The Talisman , a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott...
     (2009, miniseries)


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