In NatGeo's documentary 'Jaws @ 50,' Spielberg recalls having a panic attack after he wrapped filming on 'Jaws' — which premiered on June 20, 1975 For Steven Spielberg, making Jaws had a profound impact on his mental health.

The Great White Turd. That was one of the insults that Steven Spielberg hurled at the mechanical shark from Jaws, who first popped out of the water 50 years ago this week. Though it took months to get the malfunctioning shark to pop out of the water or to do anything it was supposed to while terrorising Amity Island.

Film critics and Wendy Benchley, the wife of late "Jaws" author Peter Benchley, told Fox News Digital about what made the film adaptation such a cultural phenomenon.

On the 50th anniversary of the release of the horror classic, a look at the movie crew in When Steven Spielberg started filming “Jaws” on May 2, 1974, began its long association with the movie’s fictitious location,

Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, his second feature, left such a imprint on culture and Hollywood that barely any trip to the movies, let alone to the beach, has been the same since. Few films have been more perfectly suited to their time and place than “Jaws,