Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025) is an authorized documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Laurent Bouzereau to mark five decades since Spielberg's Jaws changed the shape of Hollywood. The film runs 88 minutes and draws on rare archival footage assembled over years.

The interviewees read like a history of American blockbuster cinema: Spielberg, James Cameron, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Cameron Crowe, J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Guillermo del Toro, John Williams, and screenwriter Carl Gottlieb. Each one traces how a malfunctioning animatronic shark — nicknamed "Bruce" — forced the production into crisis and, in being solved, invented the grammar of the summer movie. The Benchley family and marine scientists close the loop: the film that scared a generation out of the water eventually helped move public opinion on white shark conservation. Stream Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story online on iFILM.