Indiana Jones (franchise)

The Indiana Jones franchise is an American entertainment franchise, based on the adventures of Dr. Henry Indiana Jones, a fictional archaeologist. It began in 1981 with the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. A prequel, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, followed in 1984 and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. In 1992, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, featuring adventures the character had as a child as he traveled around the world with his father, began airing on television. A fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was released in 2008 and was the last in the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. The series was created by George Lucas the films star Harrison Ford and were directed by Steven Spielberg. The Walt Disney Company owns the Indiana Jones franchise since its acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012.

The first film, Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 is set in 1936. Indiana Jones Harrison Ford is hired by government agents to locate the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. The Nazis have teams searching for religious artifacts, including the Ark, which is rumored to make an army that carries the Ark before it invincible. The Nazis are being helped by Indianas nemesis Ren Belloq Paul Freeman. With the help of his old flame Marion Ravenwood Karen Allen and Sallah John RhysDavies, Indiana manages to recover the Ark in Egypt. The Nazis steal the Ark and capture Indiana and Marion. Belloq and the Nazis perform a ceremony to open the Ark, but when they do so, they are all killed gruesomely by the Arks wrath. Indiana and Marion, who survived by closing their eyes, manage to get the Ark to the United States, where it is stored in a secret government warehouse.The second film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 is set in 1935, a year before Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana escapes Chinese gangsters with the help of singeractress Willie Scott Kate Capshaw and his twelveyearold sidekick Short Round Jonathan Ke Quan. The trio crashland in India, where they come across a village whose children have been kidnapped. A destructive cult led by Mola Ram Amrish Puri has also taken the holy Sankara Stones, which they will use to take over the world. Indiana manages to overcome Mola Rams evil power, rescues the children and returns the stones to their rightful place, overcoming his own mercenary nature. ........

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