Steven Spielberg didn't just make movies. He made the movies that made you love movies.

From the shark that kept a generation out of the ocean to the robot boy at the bottom of the sea, from Normandy Beach to the surface of an alien mothership, Spielberg has spent fifty years using popular cinema to ask the questions that matter most: What are we afraid of? What do we reach toward? What do we owe the people we love, the people we've lost, and the people we've never met?

Spielberg Reloaded tells the story of one of the most important filmmakers who ever lived — one film at a time. Each episode dives into a single chapter of his work: the craft, the cultural moment, and the questions that have followed his films long after the credits rolled.

Portions of this podcast are created with the help of A.I.