As Marcus Brody says, "nothing else had come close." Roll up all the priceless jewels and secret documents that every movie character in history has tried to acquire, and you'll still only have a t...

The Pharaoh Shishak builds the Well of Souls in the city of Tanis to hide the mystical swag he stole from Jerusalem. The Bible mentions Shishak, but his stealing of the Ark is a fabrication. The We...

A simple bronze medallion with a crystal in the middle and some writing on the side. The key to the most fabulous artifact in the history of man. Karma in action for evil Gestapo agents who get a l...

The warehouse only shows up in two shots—the last two shots of the movie, as luck would have it. It's a vast storage facility stacked to the rafters with crates. There's nothing at all to differe...

Have you ever stopped to think about a movie explosion? Really sat down and thought about it? We're going to guess that the answer is "no." And why should you? There's only so much musing one can d...

The movie takes particular glee in subtly deflating the various symbols of Nazism. Sure, we get the gist of it whenever our hero pounds some goose-stepping moron senseless, but Raiders just loves r...