Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss, left) and Quint (Robert Shaw) finally come face-to-face with their toothy nemesis in this scene toward the end of "Jaws." The shark ...

"Jaws" drastically altered the societal awareness and fear of sharks. A theme song consisting of a simple two-note motif has kept swimmers terrified of open water for decades. John Williams' iconic ...

Steven Spielberg's Jaws is famously a movie that builds suspense through what it doesn't show the audience, and if you know anything about the making of the original summer blockbuster (airing tonight ...

(CNN) — We hardly see the cartilaginous villain of “Jaws” before it tears through a skinny-dipper, a dog, a little boy and an overconfident fisherman. It takes nearly two hours to finally watch the ...

Name that theme song: Dunnn-dun. Dunnn-dun. Dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun. Who are we kidding? That terrifying two-note John Williams creation of course conjures the opening shark strike in “Jaws,” ...

To close out a summer of celebration around the 50th anniversary of the iconic "Jaws," the movie returns to theaters on Labor Day weekend. Its tale of how a great white shark terrorized a beach ...

Last summer, a great white shark washed up on the shore of Nantucket, Massachusetts. When a family on vacation came across the beached behemoth as it flailed in the shallow waves, they made a ...

Hi there! It’s Rosanna Xia, coastal reporter and director of the Los Angeles Times environmental documentary “Out of Plain Sight,” filling in for Sammy Roth. For this week’s edition of Boiling Point, ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a ...

We hardly see the cartilaginous villain of “Jaws” before it tears through a skinny-dipper, a dog, a little boy and an overconfident fisherman. It takes nearly two hours to finally watch the great ...