📖 Spielberg: A Retrospective

For more than four decades, Steven Spielberg has created inspiring, exciting and unforgettable movie magic. Jaws, E.T., the Indiana Jones series, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and War Horse are among the many favourites that have thrilled cinema audiences all over the world. They are some of the highest-grossing, most captivating and enduring films of all time - contemporary classics that indelibly remain part of our lives. Steven Spielberg's own story is itself the stuff of dreams. He was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was an electrical engineer and his mother a restaurateur and concert pianist. In 1959, he made a mini-movie to earn his Boy Scout photography merit badge, an achievement that proved to be the catalyst for his future career. By the time Spielberg was a teenager, he was charging his friends admission to his home movies and won his first prize at the age of thirteen for a short war film. Soon he took to...