John Williams' 30 Most Important Scores (IMO)

For those looking to start a Williams soundtrack collection I'd recommend these 30:

The Reivers (1969)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Black Sunday (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Superman (1978)
The Fury (1978)
Dracula (1979)
1941 (1979)
Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Home Alone (1990)
Hook (1991)
Schindler's List (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)


These 20 Scores Are Very Good Also

Earthquake (1974)
The Eiger Sanction (1976)
Family Plot (1976)
Midway (1976)
Jaws 2 (1978)
The River (1984)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
JFK (1991)
Far and Away (1992)
Nixon (1995)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Angela's Ashes (1999)
The Patriot (2000)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Munich (2005)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

If you want to delve back further, The Rare Breed, The Plainsman, None But The Brave and Heidi are his better pre-1969 scores