The 71-year-old filmmaker has a broad back catalogue of movies from classic sci-fi like ET to Cold War drama in the form of Bridge of Spies.
Now Spielberg is back with The Post, a political thriller set in 1971, when the Washington Post published the Pentagon Papers.
The documents were the Defence’s department’s history of the USA’s political-military involvement in Vietnam between 1945 and 1967.
A year into the Trump administration and Spielberg feels the film couldn’t be more timely.
Speaking with The Guardian, he said: “The level of urgency to make the movie was because of the current climate of this administration, bombarding the press and labelling the truth as fake if it suited them.
“I deeply resented the hashtag ‘alternative facts’, because I’m a believer in only one truth, which is the objective truth.”
Spielberg first read the script for The Post only 11 months ago and knew he wanted to make a film covering a Republican President – Nixon in 1971 – who was at war with the media.
The director’s next movie is Ready Player One, based on the best-selling novel of the same name.
Set for release on March 30, Ready Player One is set in the near future where the internet has become an all-encompassing VR experience.
The Post is out now.