Buster Keaton, The Cameraman (1928), The General (1926)
Charles Chaplin (UK), Easy Street (1916), The Immigrant (1917), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936)
Leo McCarey, Duck Soup (1933)
John Huston, Key Largo (1948), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Searchers (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock (UK), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), Strangers on a Train (1951)
Orson Welles, Touch of Evil (1958), Citizen Kane (1941)
Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot (1959)
PART TWO
Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: Space Odyssey (1968), Lolita (1962)
Mike Nichols, Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Graduate (1967)
Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider (1969)
Paul Mazursky, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Michelangelo Antonioni (It.), Zabrinsky Point (1969)
John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy (1969)
William Friedkin, The French Connection (1971)
George Roy Hill, The Sting (1973), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Sam Peckinpah, Straw Dogs (1971)
Robert Mulligan, Summer of '42 (1971)
Alan Paluka, Klute (1971)
Woody Allen, Play It Again, Sam (1972), What's New, Pussycat? (1965), Take the Money and Run ( 1969), Sleeper (1973), Manhattan (1979), Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Roman Polanski (Fr.), Chinatown (1974)
Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein (1974)
Sydney Pollack, Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Mystic River (2003)
Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter (1978)
Martin Ritt, Norma Rae (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (1979), The Conversation (1974)
Nicholas Roeg (UK), Bad Timing (1980)
George Lucas, Star Wars IV (1977), American Graffiti (1973)
PART THREE
Ridley Scott, Bladerunner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991)
David Lynch, Blue Velvet (1986)
Oliver Stone, Platoon (1986), Salvador (1986)
Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Robert Young, The Balad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
Win Wenders (Ger.) Paris, Texas (1984), The State of Things (1982)
John Sayles, Brother From Another Planet (1984)
Spike Lee, She’s Got a Have it (1986), Do The Right Thing (1989)
Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Taxi Driver (1976)
Michael Moore, Roger and Me (1989)
Steven Soderberg, Sex, Lies, and Videotapes (1989)
Uli Edel (Ger.), Last Exit To Brooklyn (1989)
PART FOUR
Jim Jarmush, Dead Man (1995), Blue in the Face (1995), Night On Earth (1991)
James Foley, Glengarry Glen Rose (1992)
Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall (1990)
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994)
Barbara Trent, Tha Panama Deception (1992)
Robert Altman, Short Cuts (1993), M.A.S.H. (1970)
Joel and Ethan Coen, Fargo (1996)
Sam Raimi, A Simple Plan (1998)
Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line (1998)
Tim Robbins, The Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Todd Solondz, Happiness (1998)
Peter Weir (Aus.), The Truman Show (1998), Dead Poets Society (1989)
Sam Mendes, American Beauty (1999)
Rodrigo García (Col.), Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)