Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and he has created some truly chilling alien encounters.

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The first movie, directed by Ridley Scott, follows a crew of scientists who work for a company called ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...