An American media franchise based on the adventures of Dr. Henry WaltonIndiana Jones, a fictional professor of archaeology, played byHarrison Ford, and created byGeorge Lucas. The film series began in 1981 with the filmRaiders of the Lost Ark. In 1984, a prequel,The Temple of Doom, was released, and in 1989, a sequel,the Last Crusade. A fourth film followed in 2008, titledThe Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. A final movie called Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was released in 2023 but became a box office bomb.