War of the Worlds was an obvious and devastating response to the carnage of 9/11, updating the classic novel to a modern-day depiction of a society coming undone in the face of an apocalyptic alien invasion.

Steven Spielberg thinks his latest alien film is his most realistic alien movie yet. The director explained in a new interview how he dove into "Disclosure Day" looking to make it more factually accurate to aliens arriving on Earth than his iconic films "ET" or "Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,