Raiders of the Lost Ark
“The return of the great adventure.”
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
How Raiders of the Lost Ark compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Indiana Jones, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 5
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 28%
- Share of the series audience
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) is the highest-rated of the 5 rated films in the Indiana Jones series, at 7.9/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.1/10.
It is the film that started the series, 42 years before the most recent entry, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).
Its 13,968 TMDB ratings are 28% of the 49,233 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Indiana Jones, comparing all 5 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark is film 1 of 5. See the complete watch order.