Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is the latest movie to tackle the subject of first contact, but these masterpieces understood the idea much better.

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Burst into the Alien franchise in the right order.

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...