Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015) is an American documentary you can watch online on iFILM. In 1982, three eleven-year-olds in Mississippi set out to shoot their own shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark — every stunt, every chase, every explosion — with no money, no crew, and a borrowed camera.

It took seven years. Friendships nearly broke apart. A backyard caught fire. They finished every scene but one: the destruction of the Flying Wing airplane. Thirty years later, directors Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen follow Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos back home to Mississippi, where they build a full-scale replica and finally blow it up — for real. Eli Roth and John Rhys-Davies show up, and nobody argues with the title. This is a film about obsession, childhood friendship, and the specific lunacy it takes to finish something you started at age eleven. Watch Raiders! online on iFILM.