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The Directors(2018–)

July 5, 20188 Seasons · 80 Episodes

Returning Series

Documentary

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Overview

This series looks at the 20th century’s iconic film directors; the real innovators whose breakthrough direction made film into the movies. Their early lives, often escaping war or poverty found expression in theatre, then film, forming the fundamental art that is cinema. Each episode brought to life by Derek Malcolm, Neil Norman, Stephen Armstrong, Dr. Bonnie Greer OBE and Ian Nathan along with classic moments from each film career.

Network Sky Arts

Seasons

The Directors (2018) | Couchpile

Season 2

10 Episodes

2019

Stanley Kubrick

E01

Stanley Kubrick

1/17/2019·45m

A look at the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, the legendary director whose films include A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket.

David Lean

E02

David Lean

1/24/2019·45m

Movie experts explore the life and word of British director David Lean

Michael Curtiz

E03

Michael Curtiz

1/31/2019·45m

A look at the life and work of Michael Curtiz, one of Hollywood's most prolific directors whose films include Angels With Dirty Faces, Casablanca and Mildred Pierce.

John Ford

E04

John Ford

2/7/2019·45m

A biographical portrait of John Ford, the Oscar-winning director known for the John Wayne westerns Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The Searchers.

John Huston

E05

John Huston

2/14/2019·45m

The spotlight falls on golden age great John Huston, whose films include The Maltese Falcon and Oscar-winning classics The Treasure of Sierra Madre and The African Queen.

Sergei Eisenstein

E06

Sergei Eisenstein

2/21/2019·45m

A closer look at legendary Soviet film pioneer a montage master and true world cinema great whose hugely influential works include Battleship Potemkin.

Federico Fellini

E07

Federico Fellini

2/28/2019·45m

A look at the Italian film maestro and four-time Academy Award-winner whose pioneering movies films include La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2.

Elia Kazan

E08

Elia Kazan

3/7/2019·45m

A look at A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront filmmaker the Hollywood genius credited for discovering Marlon Brando, James Dean and Warren Beatty.

Fred Zinnemann

E09

Fred Zinnemann

3/14/2019·45m

Documentary exploring four-time Academy Award-winning director Fred Zinnemann, whose movie masterpieces include Oklahoma!, High Noon, Julia and The Day of the Jackal.

Vincente Minnelli

E10

Vincente Minnelli

3/21/2019·45m

A look at the life of Vincente Minnelli, the Academy Award-winning director of movie musicals Gigi and An American in Paris, and the father of Liza Minnelli.

Season 6

10 Episodes

2021

Spike Lee

E01

Spike Lee

1/7/2021·45m

The story of Academy Award-winning director Spike Lee, who wowed audiences with gripping films like Malcolm X, Inside Man and BlacKkKlansman.

Mike Nichols

E02

Mike Nichols

1/14/2021·45m

A look at the life and career of the Academy Award-winning director, whose work includes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate.

Ron Howard

E03

Ron Howard

1/21/2021·45m

A deep dive into the life and career of the Academy Award-winning director, whose work includes A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon and Apollo 13.

William Friedkin

E04

William Friedkin

1/28/2021·45m

The life and career of the Academy Award-winning director, known for his 1973 horror film The Exorcist and his action-thriller The French Connection.

Kathryn Bigelow

E05

Kathryn Bigelow

2/4/2021·45m

A look at the life and career of the director of Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker, the latter of which she won the Oscar for Best Director.

Quentin Tarantino

E06

Quentin Tarantino

2/11/2021·45m

A look at the life of one of Hollywood's most successful directors, whose long list of hit films include Pulp Fiction and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

J Lee Thompson

E07

J Lee Thompson

2/18/2021·45m

The life story of the British film director, known both in the UK and across the pond for films such as Ice Cold in Alex and Cape Fear.

Rob Reiner

E08

Rob Reiner

2/25/2021·45m

A look at the life and career of the acclaimed Hollywood director, whose films include Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally... and the Oscar-nominated A Few Good Men.

Stephen Frears

E09

Stephen Frears

3/4/2021·45m

A look at the career of the Academy Award-nominated director, known for his gripping depictions of life stories and characters - such as his acclaimed film The Queen.

John Carpenter

E10

John Carpenter

3/11/2021·45m

The last episode of the series takes a deep dive into the life and career of John Carpenter, known for his cult classics such as Dark Star, The Thing and Halloween.

Season 8

10 Episodes

2023

James Cameron

E01

James Cameron

1/5/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of a highly-innovative filmmaker known for Titanic, Avatar and The Terminator.

Stephen Soderbergh

E02

Stephen Soderbergh

1/12/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of an Oscar-winning director renowned for his experimental approach and hits such as Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven.

Milos Forman

E03

Milos Forman

1/19/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of Czechoslovakia's most famous and acclaimed filmmaker, known for 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Richard Linklater

E04

Richard Linklater

1/26/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of a pioneer in the independent filmmaking scene of the 1990s, known for Before Sunrise and School of Rock.

Orson Welles

E05

Orson Welles

2/2/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of an Academy Award-winning actor and director known for Citizen Kane and more.

Philip Noyce

E06

Philip Noyce

2/9/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of a celebrated Australian filmmaker, known for The Quiet American, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Dead Calm.

David Fincher

E07

David Fincher

2/16/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of American director David Fincher, renowned for his psychological thrillers such as Fight Club, Seven and Panic Room.

Nancy Meyers

E08

Nancy Meyers

2/23/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of American filmmaker Nancy Meyers, known for The Parent Trap, The Holiday and Something's Gotta Give.

Clint Eastwood

E09

Clint Eastwood

3/2/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of the legendary actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood, known for Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and American Sniper.

Ang Lee

E10

Ang Lee

3/9/2023·60m

A look at the life and career of the celebrated Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi.

Season 1

10 Episodes

2018

Alfred Hitchcock

E01

Alfred Hitchcock

7/5/2018·45m

A profile of Alfred Hitchcock, the Leytonstone-born director who became known as 'the Master of Suspense' with films such as Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho.

Billy Wilder

E02

Billy Wilder

7/12/2018·45m

A look at the life and career of director Billy Wilder, who dominated Hollywood's Golden Age with films such as Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot and Sunset Boulevard.

William Wyler

E03

William Wyler

7/19/2018·45m

A look at the life and work of William Wyler, the Oscar-winning film director known for such films as Ben Hur and The Best Years of Our Lives.

Sam Peckinpah

E04

Sam Peckinpah

7/26/2018·45m

A portrait of Sam Peckinpah, the controversial, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director known for films like The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs and The Getaway.

Howard Hawks

E05

Howard Hawks

8/2/2018·45m

A look at the life and career of Howard Hawks, the Academy Award-winning director of Only Angels Have Wings, Scarface, Bringing Up Baby and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Fritz Lang

E06

Fritz Lang

8/9/2018·45m

An intimate portrait of Austrian-born filmmaker Fritz Lang, one of the most accomplished and enduring directors of the 20th century.

Cecil B DeMille

E07

Cecil B DeMille

8/16/2018·45m

A look at the films of Cecil B DeMille, the director who became a giant of the 20th-century film industry, known for epics such as The Ten Commandments.

George Cukor

E08

George Cukor

8/23/2018·45m

A fascinating look at the work of George Cukor, who was a dialogue director in the early days of films with sound, and received an Academy Award in 1964 for My Fair Lady.

Akira Kurosawa

E09

Akira Kurosawa

8/30/2018·45m

A look at the life and career of Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese filmmaker who won international acclaim with films such as Rashomon, Ikiru and Ran.

Frank Capra

E10

Frank Capra

9/6/2018·45m

An intimate portrait of Frank Capra, the celebrated Italian-American director known for films such as It's a Wonderful Life and Mr Smith Goes to Washington.

Season 3

10 Episodes

2019

John Sturges

E01

John Sturges

7/11/2019·45m

A fascinating look at the life and career of Oscar-nominated director John Sturges, the mind behind classic films such as The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven.

Sidney Lumet

E02

Sidney Lumet

7/18/2019·41m

An intriguing look into the life and career of Academy Award-winning film director Sidney Lumet.

Don Siegel

E03

Don Siegel

7/25/2019·45m

An in-depth look at the life and career of American film director Don Siegel, known for the sci-fi film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and his work with Clint Eastwood.

Stanley Donen

E04

Stanley Donen

8/1/2019·45m

A look at the life and career of master of the musical Stanley Donen, who directed Hollywood greats like Singin' in the Rain, Royal Wedding and On the Town.

George Stevens

E05

George Stevens

8/8/2019·45m

A look at the life and career of three-time Academy Award-winning film director George Stevens. His best known films include A Place in the Sun and The Diary of Anne Frank.

John Frankenheimer

E06

John Frankenheimer

8/15/2019·45m

A look at the life and career of the award-winning director behind movies such as The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Train and Ronin.

Robert Wise

E07

Robert Wise

8/22/2019·45m

A look at the life and career of the Academy Award-winning director behind The Sound of Music, West Side Story and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Alan J Pakula

E08

Alan J Pakula

8/29/2019·45m

A look into the life and career of the American film director behind All the President's Men and Sophie's Choice, and the producer of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Carol Reed

E09

Carol Reed

9/5/2019·45m

A closer look at the life and career of the Academy Award-winning British director behind acclaimed films Odd Man Out, Oliver! and The Fallen Idol.

Sergio Leone

E10

Sergio Leone

9/12/2019·45m

Explore the life of the highly influential director credited as the inventor of the Italian Western genre. His films include Once Upon a Time In America.

Season 4

10 Episodes

2020

Sydney Pollack

E01

Sydney Pollack

1/30/2020·45m

An in-depth look at the life and career of the Academy Award-winning director, whose hit films include Out of Africa and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Otto Preminger

E02

Otto Preminger

2/6/2020·45m

A look at the life and career of the director, known for his boundary-pushing films such as The Man with the Golden Arm and the Academy Award-nominated Anatomy of a Murder.

Joseph Mankiewicz

E03

Joseph Mankiewicz

2/13/2020·45m

An exploration of the multiple Academy Award-winning director whose films include All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives and The Philadelphia Story.

Robert Altman

E04

Robert Altman

2/20/2020·45m

A look at the life and career of the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose films include Gosford Park, Nashville, MASH and McCabe & Mrs Miller.

Ernst Lubitsch

E05

Ernst Lubitsch

2/27/2020·45m

Explore the life and career of the Academy Award-winning director whose works include Trouble in Paradise, Heaven Can Wait and To Be or Not to Be.

Peter Weir

E06

Peter Weir

3/5/2020·45m

An in-depth look at the life and career of the Oscar-nominated director behind films such as The Truman Show, Witness, Dead Poets Society and Green Card.

John Schlesinger

E07

John Schlesinger

3/12/2020·45m

A look at the life and career of the Academy Award-winning Midnight Cowboy director.

Brian De Palma

E08

Brian De Palma

3/19/2020·45m

A look at the life and 50-year-long career of the Oscar-nominated director, whose notable films include Scarface, Mission: Impossible and Dressed to Kill.

Victor Fleming

E09

Victor Fleming

3/26/2020·45m

Explore the life of the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose most popular films include Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

Anthony Mann

E10

Anthony Mann

4/2/2020·45m

A glimpse into the life of the director known for his work on many films such as Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid.

Season 7

10 Episodes

2022

Steven Spielberg

E01

Steven Spielberg

2/17/2022

A look into the life and career of the Hollywood director, whose portfolio is filled to the brim with classics like Jaws and Indiana Jones.

Coen Brothers

E02

Coen Brothers

2/24/2022

A look at the life and careers of the superstar directing duo, known for films such as True Grit and the Oscar-winning Fargo.

Wes Anderson

E03

Wes Anderson

3/3/2022

An insight into the life and career of an Oscar nominated director, responsible for works such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr Fox.

John Singleton

E04

John Singleton

3/10/2022

A look at the life and career of the late John Singleton, whose name came to prominence with the crime drama Boyz n the Hood.

Jonathan Demme

E05

Jonathan Demme

3/17/2022

The man responsible for the crime thriller The Silence of the Lambs, take a look at the life and career of Jonathan Demme.

Christopher Nolan

E06

Christopher Nolan

3/24/2022

An iconic director with an iconic portfolio of blockbuster films, explore the life and career of a silver screen genius Christopher Nolan.

Nora Ephron

E07

Nora Ephron

3/31/2022·60m

A look at the life and career of the late Nora Ephron, a celebrated director who made a bang on debut with This Is My Life in 1992.

Antoine Fuqua

E08

Antoine Fuqua

4/7/2022·60m

Take a look at the life and career of Antoine Fuqua, a highly successful director with films like Training Day and The Equalizer in his portfolio

Barry Levinson

E09

Barry Levinson

4/14/2022·60m

The life and career of Barry Levinson, an Academy Award-winning director, is one of success. Take a look back at his contributions towards the film industry.

Alexander Payne

E10

Alexander Payne

4/21/2022·60m

Explore the life and career of the Academy Award-winning American film director Alexander Payne, a man who possesses his own unique filmmaking style.

Season 5

10 Episodes

2020

Francis Ford Coppola

E01

Francis Ford Coppola

7/2/2020·45m

A look at the life and career of the Academy Award-winning director, whose films include The Godfather franchise and Apocalypse Now.

Ridley Scott

E02

Ridley Scott

7/9/2020·45m

A look at the life and career of the Academy Award-winning director, whose films include Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Hannibal.

Martin Scorsese

E03

Martin Scorsese

7/16/2020·45m

A look at the life of the legendary filmmaker, whose films include the Academy Award-winning The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street and Gangs of New York.

Oliver Stone

E04

Oliver Stone

7/23/2020·45m

A look at the Academy Award-winning filmmaker's life, career and portfolio of films which includes Scarface, Midnight Express, Platoon and Natural Born Killers.

Nicolas Roeg

E05

Nicolas Roeg

7/30/2020·45m

A look at the life of the celebrated filmmaker of hits Walkabout, Don't Look Now and Bad Timing. His unique style made him a highly influential filmmaker.

David Lynch

E06

David Lynch

8/6/2020·45m

A look at the life of the Academy Award-winning director of films including Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man.

Preston Sturges

E07

Preston Sturges

8/13/2020·45m

A look at the life of the inspirational filmmaker, who won the first-ever Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his comedy film The Great McGinty.

Mervyn LeRoy

E08

Mervyn LeRoy

8/20/2020·45m

A look at the life and career of the Hollywood filmmaker, famous for directing films such as the Academy Award-nominated Blossoms in the Dust and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

James L Brooks

E09

James L Brooks

8/27/2020·45m

A look at the life of the Academy Award-winning director whose work includes Terms of Endearment and multi Emmy Award-winning sitcom The Simpsons.

Robert Aldrich

E10

Robert Aldrich

9/3/2020·45m

A glimpse into the life and career of the filmmaker whose portfolio of work includes Vera Cruz, The Big Knife, The Dirty Dozen and The Longest Yard.

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