5 Steven Spielberg movies to watch before seeing 'Disclosure Day'

Cory Woodroof, For The WinTue, June 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM UTC

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5 Steven Spielberg movies to watch before seeing 'Disclosure Day'

Steven Spielberg is finally back in movie theaters this Friday with Disclosure Day, his latest sci-fi/aliens extravaganza.

Spielberg's filmography is one of the most towering achievements for any generation of filmmaker, but it's sometimes hard to know which films to key in on specifically before watching a new film by the maestro.

What Spielberg films should you watch before Disclosure Day? Well, just going off the vibes we get from the trailer, we've compiled a quick cheat sheet for five Spielberg watches that make sense to us leading up to Friday.

Let's run through these real quick and describe why they feel like perfect companion pieces.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Spielberg's first big alien movie brought forth a Close Encounter we're still reeling from roughly 50 years later. While Disclosure Day looks like its own movie, this is the Spielberg title that's popping up most for people in comparison.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. is probably Spielberg's most adoring movie and the one that gave us cinema's most beloved alien. As Disclosure Day returns the auteur to the sci-fi/UFO space, revisiting a classic E.T. just feels right.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

A.I. saw Spielberg taking the remnants of a Stanley Kubrick project and giving it his signature touch. The first of his heady sci-fi endeavors from the 2000s, A.I. feels spiritually linked to Disclosure Day from the trailers we've seen.

Minority Report

Minority Report is another Spielberg move that Disclosure Day reminds us of, particularly that agency Colin Firth is running that's pursuing our main protagonists. We see the bridge linking this one to these 2000s Spielberg greats.

The Fabelmans

Just in case you missed Spielberg's astounding semi-biography on film, The Fabelmans is his most recent project and, truly, one of his best. Knocking this one out before Disclosure Day is an absolute must.

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