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George Lucas has 25 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 5 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Star Wars.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
Documentary
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%Disney+ · Included
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Movie · Writer
Top 1%Disney+ · Included
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 3%Disney+ · Included
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 · Series · Creator
Top 6%Disney+ · Included
Willow
1988 · Movie · Writer
Top 16%Disney+ · Included
American Graffiti
1973 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 16%Netflix · Included
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
Dir. George Lucas · With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Dir. Irvin Kershner · With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.
Dir. Richard Marquand · With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott
When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
Dir. George Lucas · With Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan
Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
Dir. George Lucas · With Ashley Eckstein, Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
Dir. George Hickenlooper, Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola · With Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, John Milius
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Dir. George Lucas · With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat
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From the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debuts, explore the creation of the Star Wars Trilogy.
Dir. Edith Becker, Kevin Burns · With Robert Clotworthy, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
Dir. Leslie Iwerks · With Stacy Keach, Edwin Catmull, Steve Jobs
A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.
Dir. Gary Rydstrom · With Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Sam Palladio
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Dir. George Lucas · With Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Dir. Christopher Kenneally · With Keanu Reeves, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.
Dir. George Lucas · With Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
Dir. George Lucas · With Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Dir. Wendy Apple · With Kathy Bates, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino
During the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi leads an assault on the planet Muunilinst, home of the Intergalactic Banking Clan; and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, is appointed by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to lead the Republic’s space forces. Meanwhile, Separatist leader and Sith Lord Count Dooku takes in Force-sensitive gladiator Asajj Ventress as his Sith apprentice, and tasks her with eliminating Skywalker.
Dir. George Lucas, Genndy Tartakovsky, Henry Gilroy · With James Arnold Taylor, Mat Lucas
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
Dir. John Korty · With Eric Walker, Warwick Davis, Fionnula Flanagan
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen
The passion the original Star Wars trilogy inspires in its fans is unparalleled; but when it comes to George Lucas himself, many have found their ardor has cooled into a complicated love-hate relationship. This hilarious, heartfelt documentary delves deep into Lucas’s cultural legacy, asking all the tough questions. Has Lucas betrayed his masterwork? Should he just have left the original trilogy alone? Is The Phantom Menace so bad it should carry a health warning? Utilizing interviews taken from over 600 hours of footage, and peppered with extraordinary Star Wars and Indiana Jones recreations lovingly immortalized in song, needlepoint, Lego, claymation, puppets and paper-mâché, above all this film asks the question: who truly owns that galaxy far, far away—the man who created it, or the fans who worship it?
Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe · With George Lucas, Mark A. Altman, John Barger
The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing Cindel's family. Cindel and the Ewok Wicket escape and meet Teek in the forest, a naughty and very fast animal. Teek takes them to a house in which an old man, Noa, lives. Like Cindel, he also crashed with his Starcruiser on Endor. Together they fight Terak and Charal.
Dir. Ken Wheat, Jim Wheat · With Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller
At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.
Dir. George Lucas · With Sean Patrick Flanery, Corey Carrier, Lloyd Owen
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