50 Greatest Action Movies Of All Time
47. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)

Best friends Steven Spielberg and George Lucas came up with the idea to re-imagine the serials of the 1940s and '50s they had grew up with into something modern audiences would appreciate and ultimately created one of cinema's most iconic characters, not to mention the greatest adventure movie ever made.
Just as the tagline promised, Raiders of the Lost Ark did indeed give adventure a new name; from the action-packed prologue to the final emphasis on 'top men' via some barnstorming set-pieces and quotable dialogue, the cinematic debut of Indiana Jones is never anything less than brilliant.