Notable Directors
Documentary and ethnographic film bibliography (for bibliographies on individual filmmakers)
A
Chantel Akerman
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodovar
Robert Altman
Lindsay Anderson
Ang Lee
Kenneth Anger
Michelangelo Antonioni
Dorothy Arzner
Richard Attenborough
B
Ingmar Bergman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Les Blank
John Boorman
Stan Brakhage
Catherine Breillat
Robert Bresson
Luis Bunuel
Ken Burns
Tim Burton
C
Jane Campion
Alberto Cavalcanti
Frank Capra
Marcel Carne
Claude Chabrol
Youssef Chahine
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Chen
Chen Kaige
Rene Clair
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jean Cocteau
Joel and Ethan Coen
Francis Coppola
Roger Corman
David Cronenberg
George Cukor
D
Julie Dash
Emile de Antonio
Brian De Palma
Cecil B. DeMille
Jonathan Demme
Jacques Demy
Maya Deren
Emile de Antonio
Vittorio De Sica
Virginie Despentes
Walt Disney
Alexander Dovzhenko
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Marguerite Duras
E-F
Sergei Eisenstein
Valie Export
Harun Farocki
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federico Fellini
Louis Feuillade
Robert Flaherty
John Ford
Milos Forman
Stephen Frears
G
Abel Gance
Terry Gilliam
Jean-Luc Godard
Peter Greenaway
D.W. Griffith
John Grierson
H-I
Michael Haneke
Barbara Hammer
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock
Hou Hsiao-hsien
John Huston
Joris Ivens
James Ivory and Ishmail Merchant
J
Derek Jarman
Jim Jarmusch
Humphrey Jennings
Neil Jordan
Isaac Julien
K
Kaige Chen
Elia Kazan
Buster Keaton
Abbas Kiarostami
Krzysztof Kieslowski
King Hu
Takeshi "Beat" Kitano
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
L
Fritz Lang
Claude Lanzmann
David Lean
Ang Lee
Spike Lee
Claude Lelouch
Richard Lester
Sergio Leone
Richard Lester
Val Lewton
Ken Loach
Pare Lorentz
Joseph Losey
Ernst Lubitsch
Lumière Brothers
David Lynch
M
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Louis Malle
Chris Marker
Albert and David Maysles
Georges Melies
Jean-Pierre Melville
Hayao Miyazaki
Oscar Micheaux
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michael Moore
Errol Morris
F.W. Murnau
N-0
Max Ophuls
Dennis O'Rourke
Nagisa Oshima
Yasujiro Ozu
P-Q
G.W. Pabst
Marcel Pagnol
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sam Peckinpah
D.A. Pennebaker
Roman Polanski
Sally Potter
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
V.I. Pudovkin
R
Yvonne Rainer
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Karel Reisz
Jean Renoir
Alain Resnais
Tony Richardson
Leni Riefenstahl
Marlon Riggs
Jacques Rivette
Nicholas Roeg
Eric Rohmer
Roberto Rossellini
Jean Rouch
Ken Russell
Walther Ruttmann
S
Carlos Saura
John Schlesinger
Volker Schlondorff
Martin Scorsese
Ousmane Sembene
Jim Sheridan
John Singleton
Douglas Sirk
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Spielberg
Wolfgang Staudte
Oliver Stone
Preston Sturges
Jan Svankmajer
Hans-Jurgens Syberberg
T
Quentin Tarantino
Andrei Tarkovsky
Vittorio and Paolo Taviani
Jacques Tati
Bertrand Tavernier
Robert Townsend
Monika Treut
Trinh T. Minh-ha
François Truffaut
Tsui Hark
Tom Tykwer
U-V
Roger Vadim
Gus Van Sant
Agnes Varda
Mario and Melvyn Van Peebles
Dziga Vertov
King Vidor
Jean Vigo
Luciano Visconti
Josef Von
Sternberg
Lars von Trier
W
Andrzej Wajda
Robert Wiene
Peter Weir
Orson Welles
William Wellman
Wim Wenders
Lina Wertmüller
Billy Wilder
Frederick Wiseman
Wong Kar-Wai
John Woo
Basil Wright
William Wyler
X-Z
Zhang Yi-Mou
