Great Cinema Directors (1875-present)
This list was compiled by Malaspina University-College Film Instructor Shirley Goldberg. The list is ordered by date of birth. Comprehensive data base entries for each of these directors is under construction.
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D. W. (David Wark) Griffith (1875-1948)
Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951)
G. W. Pabst (1885-1967)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1889-1931)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968)
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Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Abel Gance (1889-1981)
Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953)
Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956)
Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
John Ford (1895-1973)
Dziga Vertov (1896-1954)
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Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)
John Grierson (1898-1972)
Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)
René Clair (1898-1981)
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
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Luis Bunuel (1900-1983)
Vittorio De Sica (1901-1974)
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963)
Jean Vigo (1905-1934) (1903-1963)
Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)
Luchino Visconti (1906-1976)
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Robert Bresson (1907- )
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Jacques Tati (1908-1982)
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912- )
Norman McLaren (1914-1987)
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
Masaki Kobayasahi (1916)
Maria Luisa Bemberg (1917-1995)
Ján Kadár (1918-1979)
Ingmar Bergman (1918- )
Gillo Pontecorvo (1919- )
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Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
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Eric Rohmer (1920- )
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992)
Miklós Jancsó (1921- )
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)
Alain Resnais (1922- )
Francesco Rosi (1922- )
Ousmane Sembene (1923- )
Robert Altman (1925- )
Andrzej Wajda (1926- )
Shohei Imamura (1926- )
Youssef Chahine (1926- )
Stanley Kubrick (1928- )
Jean Luc Godard (1930- )
Ermanno Olmi (1931- )
Carlos Saura (1932- )
Francois Truffaut (1932- )
Milos Forman (1932- )
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932- )
Constantin Costa-Gavras (1933- )
Woody Allen (1935- )
Theo Angelopoulos (1935- )
Yilmaz Guney (1937- )
Glauber Rocha (1938-1981)
Francis Ford Coppola (1939- )
Abbas Kiarostami (1940- )
Bernardo Bertolucci (1941- )
Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941- )
Margarethe von Trotta (1942- )
Werner Herzog (1942- )
Martin Scorsese (1942- )
Mike Leigh (1943- )
Peter Weir (1944- )
Wim Wenders (1945- )
Gianni Amelio (1945- ) Records below this line are still under construction and link to Amazon only.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1946)
Oliver Stone (1946)
Hou Hsiao-hsien (1947)
Edward Yang (1947)
Steven Spielberg (1947)
Agnieszka Holland (1948)
Zhang Yimou (1950)
Chen Kaige (1952)
Spike Lee (1958)
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