Overview

• The 90-minute authorized documentary premieres on National Geographic at 10 PM on July 20 to mark Jaws’s 50th anniversary
• Laurent Bouzereau directs the film, which is produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Documentaries and Nedland Films with Wendy Benchley and Laura Bowling
• It includes never-before-seen footage and home videos from Spielberg’s and Peter Benchley’s archives alongside rare outtakes and candid interviews with cast, crew and shark experts
• Spielberg recounts the shoot’s on-set turmoil—from a temperamental mechanical shark to weather delays and budget overruns—calling this the most honest telling of Jaws’s making
• The special reexamines the ‘Jaws effect’, contrasting the film’s initial wave of shark fear with renewed public interest in ocean conservation