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Name↕ | Films↕ | Avg Rating↕ | Genres↕ | Known Films↕ | Language↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wayne Isham | 6 | 8.18 | Documentary, Music | Metallica: Quebec Magnetic, Metallica: Pride, Passion and Glory - Three Nights in Mexico City, Avril Lavigne: The Best Damn Tour - Live in Toronto, Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M, Metallica: Cunning Stunts | English, Spanish |
Dick Carruthers | 5 | 8.14 | Documentary, Music | Black Sabbath: The End of The End, Black Sabbath: The End - Live In Birmingham, Imagine Dragons: Smoke + Mirrors Live, Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day, Portishead: Roseland New York | English |
Park Jun-soo | 9 | 8.1 | Documentary, Music | SUGA | Agust D TOUR 'D-DAY' THE MOVIE, TOMORROW X TOGETHER: OUR LOST SUMMER, SUGA: Road to D-DAY, Jimin's Production Diary, j-hope IN THE BOX | Korean |
Yann Arthus-Bertrand | 5 | 8.06 | Documentary, Drama, Family | Legacy, Human, Terra, Planet Ocean, Home | French |
Nick Wickham | 8 | 7.92 | Documentary, Music | Shakira: Live from Paris, The Big Four: Live in Sofia, Beyoncé: I Am...Yours - An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas, Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium, Beyoncé: The Experience Live | English |
Leon Hirszman | 5 | 7.9 | Documentary, Drama | ABC of a Strike, They Don't Wear Black Tie, Saint Bernard, The Deceased, Absolute Majority | Portuguese |
David Korn-Brzoza | 5 | 7.78 | Documentary, History, TV Movie, War | Hitler's Evil Science, The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill, After Hitler, 1945: The Fall of the Reich, Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century | French |
Daniel Gordon | 8 | 7.71 | Documentary, Music | Billion Dollar Heist, The Australian Dream, George Best: All by Himself, Hillsborough, The Fall | English |
Constantine Nasr | 7 | 7.7 | Documentary, TV Movie | Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale, The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends, The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too, 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year, Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices | English |
Paul Dugdale | 19 | 7.68 | Documentary, Music | Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert, Wicked: One Wonderful Night, The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl, An Evening with Dua Lipa, Apple Music Live: Jennifer Lopez | English, German |
Eduardo Coutinho | 7 | 7.66 | Documentary, History, Music | Last Conversations, Songs, Playing, Metalworkers, Master, a Building in Copacabana | Portuguese |
David Mallet | 13 | 7.58 | Documentary, Family, Fantasy, Music | Cirque du Soleil: La Nouba, Janet: Live in Hawaii, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cirque du Soleil: Quidam | English |
Andrei Tarkovsky | 10 | 7.48 | Documentary, Drama, History, Mystery | Voyage in Time, The Sacrifice, Nostalgia, Stalker, Mirror | Italian, Russian, Swedish |
Thom Zimny | 6 | 7.28 | Documentary, Music | Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Sly, Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You, Western Stars, Springsteen on Broadway | English |
D. A. Pennebaker | 9 | 7.22 | Documentary, History, Music | Unlocking the Cage, The War Room, Depeche Mode 101, Shake! Otis at Monterey, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | English |
Bob Smeaton | 9 | 7.2 | Documentary, History, Music | Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall, The Jam: About The Young Idea, Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin', Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child, Classic Albums: The Doors | English |
Jean Cocteau | 7 | 7.2 | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Testament of Orpheus, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus, The Storm Within, The Eagle with Two Heads | French |
David J. Skal | 5 | 7.2 | Documentary | The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster, Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed, Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!, The Road to 'Dracula', She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein' | English |
Gabriela Cowperthwaite | 5 | 7.18 | Documentary, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction | I.S.S., The Grab, Our Friend, Megan Leavey, Blackfish | English |
Ricki Stern | 6 | 7.17 | Documentary | Reversing Roe, Knuckleball!, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The End of America, The Devil Came on Horseback | English |
Patricio Guzmán | 9 | 7.14 | Documentary, History | My Imaginary Country, The Cordillera of Dreams, The Pearl Button, Nostalgia for the Light, Salvador Allende | Spanish |
Stanley Nelson | 5 | 7.14 | Documentary, History, Music, TV Movie | Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Freedom Riders, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple | English |
R. J. Cutler | 6 | 7.13 | Documentary, Drama, Music | Elton John: Never Too Late, Martha, Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, Belushi, If I Stay | English |
Peter Spirer | 5 | 7.12 | Documentary, Music | The Legend of 420, Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life, Beef, Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel, Rhyme & Reason | English |
Lucy Walker | 7 | 7.09 | Documentary, Music | Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, Buena Vista Social Club: Adios, The Crash Reel, Waste Land, Countdown to Zero | English |
Marina Zenovich | 7 | 7.07 | Documentary, History | I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, Lance, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, Water & Power: A California Heist, Fantastic Lies | English |
Ken Burns | 5 | 7.06 | Documentary, History | Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Mark Twain, The Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge | English |
Rory Kennedy | 6 | 7.03 | Documentary, Drama, War | Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari, Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton, Last Days in Vietnam, Ethel | English |
Pedro Costa | 9 | 7 | Documentary, Drama, Music, Mystery | Vitalina Varela, Horse Money, Change Nothing, Colossal Youth, Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? | French, Portuguese |
Andrea Segre | 7 | 7 | Documentary, Drama, Family, History | The Great Ambition, Po, Welcome Venice, Molecules, The Order of Things | Italian |
Jeffrey Schwarz | 7 | 7 | Documentary | Tab Hunter Confidential, I Am Divine, Vito, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story | English |
David Gelb | 6 | 7 | Documentary, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller | Stan Lee, Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return, Wolfgang, The Lazarus Effect, A Faster Horse | English |
Kevin Brownlow | 5 | 6.98 | Documentary, Drama, History, Science Fiction | The Tramp and the Dictator, Lon Chaney: A thousand faces, Universal Horror, Winstanley, It Happened Here | English |
Orlando von Einsiedel | 5 | 6.96 | Documentary, War | The Lost Children, Convergence: Courage in a Crisis, Evelyn, The White Helmets, Virunga | Arabic, English, Spanish |
Kaneto Shindō | 8 | 6.95 | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, History | Postcard, A Last Note, Edo Porn, Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director, Kuroneko | Japanese |
Emma Cooper | 5 | 6.94 | Documentary, TV Movie | The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis, Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles, Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia, Louis Theroux: Under the Knife | English |
Alex Gibney | 23 | 6.92 | Documentary, Drama, Music | In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, Crazy, Not Insane, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Citizen K, No Stone Unturned | English, Russian |
Peter Watkins | 9 | 6.92 | Documentary, Drama, History, Science Fiction | La Commune (Paris, 1871), Punishment Park, Edvard Munch, The Gladiators, The War Game | English, French, Norwegian |
Jean Epstein | 7 | 6.9 | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | The Storm-Tamer, The Fall of the House of Usher, Cœur fidèle, Finis Terræ, The Three-Sided Mirror | French |
Víctor Erice | 6 | 6.9 | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | Close Your Eyes, La Morte Rouge, Dream of Light, El Sur, The Spirit of the Beehive | Spanish |
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