The Directors

The Directors

1999 2 Seasons 50 Episodes ⭐ 6.1 Documentary

Documentary biography series featuring profiles of various famous film directors.

Documentary biography series featuring profiles of various famous film directors.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Tim Burton

Profile of director Tim Burton, who first began working as an animator for Disney. His first directing job was an episod

EP 2

Terry Gilliam

Profile of Terry Gilliam, former animator for Monty Python's Flying Circus, and director of the films Monty Python and t

EP 3

Alan Parker

Profile of Alan Parker, director of The Wall and Evita.

EP 4

Wes Craven

Profile of Wes Craven, director of Swamp Thing, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Vampire in Brooklyn, and the Scream trilogy.

EP 5

Roger Corman

Roger Corman, the director of The Little Shop Of Horrors (The 1960s film, not the musical. - Ed.), is best known for mak

EP 6

Martin Scorsese

Profile and analysis filmography of the director of Taxi Driver, After Hours, The Age of Innonence, Raging Bull, Mean St

EP 7

Rob Reiner

Reiner's films include This is Spinal Tap, When Harry met Sally ..., and The Princess Bride.

EP 8

James Cameron

Profile and analysis filmograhpy about the director of movies as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgem

EP 9

Barbra Streisand

Profile of the director of Yentl, The Prince of Tides, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbra Steisand, who is also a sing

EP 10

David Cronenberg

Profile of Dave 'Deprave' Cronenberg, 'King of venereal horror', 'Baron of blood', as he has often been called. His dir

EP 11

David Mamet

His films as writer-director include ""House of Games,"" ""Heist,"" ""Homicide"" and ""The Spanish Prisoner.""

EP 12

Tony Scott

Documentary about filmmaker Tony Scott, from movies as ""The Hunger"" and ""Top Gun"".

EP 13

Ivan Reitman

Documentary about filmmaker Ivan Reitman, from movies as ""Ghostbusters"", ""Groundhog Day"" and ""Evolution"".

EP 14

Best of The Directors

Compilation of clips from various other episodes.

EP 1

Michael Mann

Documentary about the filmmaker of Heat, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider and recently Collateral .

EP 2

Robert Wise

Profile and filmograhpy of the director whose movies includes The Haunting, The Day the Earth Stood Still, I Want to Liv

EP 3

Steven Spielberg

The director of Jaws, 1941, and E.T. discusses his film career.

EP 4

Sydney Pollack

Documentary about Sydneny Pollack, the filmmaker of movies as Tootsie, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and The Way We Wer

EP 5

Milos Forman

Profile and filmograhpy of Milos Forman, whose movies includes Amadeus, One Flew on Cuckoo's Nest, Man on the Moon, The

EP 6

Clint Eastwood

One of the most famous actors ever, Clint Eastwood began his filmmaker career direting the thriller Play Misty for Me.

EP 7

Spike Lee

Spike Lee is the director of the films Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcom X, and Bamboozled.

EP 8

Martha Coolidge

Coolidge directed romantic comedies like Valley Girl, Out to Sea and Real Genius.

EP 9

Robert Altman

Life and career of the director from such movies like M.A.S.H., McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Gosford Park, Cookie's Fortune, S

EP 10

Richard Donner

EP 11

Barry Levinson

EP 12

John Frankenheimer

EP 13

Billy Friedkin

EP 14

Arthur Hiller

EP 15

Ron Howard

A former child star, Ron's films include Splash, Gung Ho, Parenthood, and A Beautiful Mind.

EP 16

Jim Abrahams, Jerry & David Zucker

The team of Jim Abrahams, and Jerry and David Zucker are best known for their comedy films Airplane!, Top Secret!, and R

EP 17

George Romero

Documentary about filmmaker George A. Romero, from many famous horror films, as Night of the Living Dead, Season of the

EP 18

Roland Emmerich

Profile of Roland Emmerich, the director of The Patriot.

EP 19

Oliver Stone

EP 20

Paul Schrader

EP 21

Scott Hicks

EP 22

Harold Becker

EP 23

Frank Darabont

Documentary about filmmaker Frank Darabont, from movies as The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption.

EP 24

Atom Egoyan

Documentary about filmmaker Atom Egoyan and his strange, surreal films.

EP 25

Anthony Menghella

Profile and analysis filmograhpy of the director of The Talented Mr. Ripley .

EP 26

Michael Bay

EP 27

Jonathan Demme

EP 28

Andrew Davis

EP 29

George Lucas

Profile of George Lucas, the director of the Star Wars series.

EP 30

Cameron Crowe

Profile of and interview with Cameron Crowe

EP 31

James Ivory

EP 32

Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott is the director of such films as 'Blade Runner' and 'Hannibal.'

EP 33

David Lynch

Documentary about filmmaker David Lynch, from movies as Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Mulholland Dr

EP 34

Philip Kaufman

Documentary about filmmaker Philip Kaufman, from movie as ""Henry & June"", ""Quills"", ""The Right Stuff"" and ""The Un

EP 35

Wolfgang Petersen

EP 51

Adrian Lyne

A profile of the director from his early days as an accountant, then directing television commercials, through to his bl

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