Your birth year
2006
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark is 25 years older than you
It's from 1981, before you were born.
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Genre
- Action-adventure
- Star
- Harrison Ford
- Released
- 1981
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About
As of 2026, it's 45 years old.
Raiders of the Lost Ark took every Saturday-morning adventure serial, distilled them into one perfect movie, and handed the result to a whip-cracking archaeologist who is, charmingly, terrible at his actual job (he rarely keeps the artifact). Indiana Jones became an instant icon, fedora and all.
From the boulder to the famous moment where Indy simply shoots the show-off swordsman, it's a masterclass in pace, wit, and set-pieces that have been imitated ever since.
Thrilling, funny, and endlessly rewatchable, Raiders is the adventure movie so good it makes archaeology look like the most dangerous job on Earth.
