The essential directors: the art and impact of cinema's most influential filmmakers

1. Artists of shadow and light : Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, D. W. Griffith, Fritz Lang, Oscar Micheaux, King Vidor, Erich von Stroheim, Lois Weber

2. The studio as auteur : Dorothy Arzner, Clarence Brown, Frank Capra, Victor Fleming, Howard Hawks, Mervyn LeRoy, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, Leo McCarey, W. W. Van Dyke, Josef von Sternberg

3. A threat to the system : George Cukor, MIchael Curtiz, John Ford, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli, George Stevens, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles, William Wyler

4. The director as star : Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Ida Lupino, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, Fred Zinnemann

5. The revolution begins : Blake Edwards, Stanley Kramer, Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski

6. A whole new Hollywood : Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Elaine May, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg.