Cross-media picks for Steven Spielberg fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks here share the pulse of big-stakes adventure: ordinary people dropped into extraordinary danger, whether it's a drilling crew racing to stop an asteroid in Armageddon, survivors navigating a flooded future in Lost City Raiders, or a lone naval destroyer carrying the last hope for humanity in The Last Ship. There's also a thread of playful wonder — portals to lost worlds, ancient mysteries, and the kind of breathless "what if" energy that makes you forget to blink.
Film
The Lost Empire
A globe-spanning race to recover sacred jewels before a villain achieves total world domination.
Film
Warlords of Atlantis
Expedition adventurers betrayed and dragged into the legendary lost world of Atlantis.
Film
Armageddon
A maverick driller leads a desperate mission to nuke an incoming asteroid and save Earth.
Film
Lost City Raiders
A father and sons salvage sunken cities in a flooded future, then get handed a world-saving task.
Film
Spielberg
An in-depth documentary portrait of one of cinema's most influential directors.
Film
Octopus
A Cold War submarine secret resurfaces decades later when a US vessel enters the same waters.
Film
America 3000
Post-nuclear survivors clash in a world where gender hierarchies have been brutally reversed.
Film
1941
Pearl Harbor panic sends a California mob and a military officer chasing a Japanese submarine.
Series
Land of the Lost
A family tumbles through a time portal into a parallel world and must survive to find a way home.
Series
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
A worldwide guided tour through cinema history's greatest innovations, film by film.
Series
The Last Ship
A naval crew races to find a pandemic cure and pull the remnants of humanity back from extinction.
Series
Now and Again
A dead man's brain in a superhero body tries to balance secret government missions and family life.
Series
Into the West
Two families — one settler, one Lakota — are bound together through the full sweep of westward expansion.
Series
The Ark
Survivors of a catastrophic deep-space accident must hold together a crippled colony ship.
Series
Amazing Stories
An anthology of fantastical, funny and frightening tales presented by Spielberg himself.
Series
Terror in Resonance
Two teenage terrorists taunt Tokyo's police with cryptic video clues as investigators close in.
Game
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Graphic Adventure
Indy races Nazi agents to uncover the deadly secrets of Atlantis before they do.
Game
Original War
A geological team in Siberia uncovers a mysterious mineral that rewrites Cold War history.
Game
Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
A writer's fragmented memory after a crash spirals into a psychological mystery of identity and loss.
Game
Close To The Sun
A reporter trapped on a colossal, sinister research vessel fights to escape its dark secrets.
Game
Hook (1992)
Peter Pan battles Captain Hook to rescue his kidnapped children in a fast-paced action platformer.
Game
The Thing
A military team in Antarctica hunts a shape-shifting alien picking off its own members one by one.
Game
Distrust
Stranded Arctic survivors slowly realise that sleeping is the one thing they cannot afford to do.
Game
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Tony Montana claws back his empire from scratch after surviving the night his enemies thought they'd won.
Book
U-571
American sailors in a fake U-boat slip into enemy waters to steal the Nazis' Enigma machine.
Book
No Time Like Tomorrow
Darkly playful sci-fi tales spanning time travel, distant futures and very strange vacations.
Book
Ace in the Hole
A religious demagogue plots to rig a presidential convention while Jokers fight for their rights.
Book
Maske
Crash survivors adapt across twelve generations to an ocean-covered planet with rigid social strata.
Book
Aye, and Gomorrah
Interlocking stories of ordinary moral choices played out against extraordinary circumstances.
Book
Mindswap
A student trades his body for interstellar travel and ends up in the wrong alien world entirely.
Book
Clay's ark
An alien disease threatens to become a global epidemic unless someone can stop it in time.
Book
Job, a comedy of justice
A midwestern minister ricochets through parallel realities, clinging to his stewardess companion.
Start with the adventure movies here — Armageddon delivers globe-in-peril tension, while The Last Ship stretches survival stakes across an entire TV series. Into the West is worth it for the epic historical sweep.
Yes — Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is the most direct fit, dropping you into a WWII-era race against Nazis for the secrets of Atlantis. Close to the Sun and Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo both offer that mix of mystery and dread.
U-571 is a taut wartime mission story that fits well alongside the naval and war-adventure picks here. For something stranger, No Time Like Tomorrow and Mindswap lean into playful, high-concept "what if" territory.