These People Directed Influential American War Movies

53 items • Updated 5/4/2026

(As recognized by the National Film Preservation Board)

1		Buster Keaton Actor
2		Stanley Kubrick Writer
3		Charles Chaplin Writer
4		David Lean Director
5		Steven Spielberg Producer
6		Oliver Stone Director
7		Robert Altman Director
8		Francis Ford Coppola Producer
9		D.W. Griffith Director
10		Kathryn Bigelow Director
11		Frank Capra Director
12		Michael Cimino Director
13		Howard Hawks Director
14		John Huston Actor
15		Errol Morris Director
16		Edward Zwick Producer
17		George Cukor Director
18		Michael Curtiz Director
19		Rex Ingram Director
20		Preston Sturges Writer
21		Fred Zinnemann Director
22		Stanley Kramer Producer
23		Clarence G. Badger Director
24		Clyde Bruckman Writer
25	👤	Julien Bryan Producer
26		Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast Director
27	👤	Peter Davis Producer
28		Connie Field Director
29		Victor Fleming Director
30		Jack Glenn Director
31		Mark Jonathan Harris Producer
32		Stuart Heisler Director
33		George W. Hill Cinematographer
34		Henry King Actor
35		Anatole Litvak Director
36		Ernst Lubitsch Director
37		Rouben Mamoulian Director
38		Leo McCarey Director
39		Winsor McCay Writer
40		Lewis Milestone Director
41	👤	Denis Sanders Director
42		Franklin J. Schaffner Director
43		Lowell Sherman Actor
44		George Stevens Cinematographer
45		Anthony Veiller Producer
46		King Vidor Director
47		Josef von Sternberg Director
48		William A. Wellman Director
49		Sam Wood Director
50		William Wyler Director

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