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, ...

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

War of the Worlds is a vicious alien-invasion movie from Steven Spielberg that's worlds away from his most recent release, ...

We’ve ranked five alien movies that the award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg has ever directed. The rankings are based on each film’s Tomatometer ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. This comes ahead of ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

Spielberg and ET looking at each other - Aaron Rapoport/Getty Images Steven Spielberg might be best known for "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park", but it's aliens where Spielberg seems to keep returning.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You really can’t go wrong with an alien movie. Give me anything involving alien invasions, strange objects appearing in the sky, ...

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