There came a point during this film, which follows Spielberg's back catalogue chronologically, where I thought it was going to be hagiographic, cutting out the one or two missteps any director would make over a 50 year career, moving straight from Close Encounters of the Third Kind to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hello, I said, they're going to pretend 1941 doesn't exist?

But no, in the many interview snippets with the man himself, Spielberg does go on to admit his own hubris, thinking he could do anything and losing control of the production throughout.

If you've read the hundreds of books, seen other filmmakers talk about him, read the blogs and seen the documentaries and making-ofs about his movies you know a lot of the lore surrounding his rise, career, influences and legacy.

But even aside from the tidbits of trivia about his films you don't know and the gems about the filmmaking process, it's fun to relive it all with shots and scenes from his iconic oeuvre and comments from talking heads who've worked with him, probably a bigger Hollywood who's-who than you've ever seen collected in a documentary before.

There's also more about his own creative soul and how his personal life reflected it than you've probably seen him talk about in any other medium. Growing up, his was usually the only Jewish family around, making him feel like an outsider and giving him the strong urge to deny his heritage in order to belong, and he only came back it and accepted his Judaism late in life through projects like Schindler's List.

It's as comprehensive a look at the man and his work as you're likely to have seen so far, and if you're a fan of his (and who isn't) the two hours-plus will fly by.