Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Produced by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark became the highest-grossing film of 1981 with $389 million worldwide against an $18 million budget and launched a franchise totalling $2.5 billion (5 films). The American Film Institute ranked Indiana Jones the second greatest film hero in cinema history (behind Atticus Finch). The film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1999 as a work of enduring cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.