Top 20 Action Movies of All Time

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

Release Date: June 12, 1981 (United States)

Plot:

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler’s Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

IMDB: 8.4

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Lawrence Kasdan(screenplay by), George Lucas(story by), Philip Kaufman(story by)
Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

Gross worldwide revenue: $389,925,971