The Directors (2018)
- Genre: Documentary
- First Air Date: 2018-07-05
- Last Air Date: 2023-03-09
- Total Seasons: 8
- Total Episodes: 80
- Status: Returning Series
- Production Company: 3DD Productions
- Production Country: United Kingdom
- Network: Sky Arts
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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2018-07-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Billy Wilder | 2018-07-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | William Wyler | 2018-07-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Sam Peckinpah | 2018-08-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Howard Hawks | 2018-08-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Fritz Lang | 2018-08-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Cecil B. Demille | 2018-08-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | George Cukor | 2018-08-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Akira Kurosawa | 2018-09-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Frank Capra | 2018-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Stanley Kubrick | 2019-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | David Lean | 2019-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Michael Curtiz | 2019-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | John Ford | 2019-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | John Huston | 2019-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Sergei Eisenstein | 2019-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Federico Fellini | 2019-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Elia Kazan | 2019-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Fred Zinnemann | 2019-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Vincente Minnelli | 2019-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | John Sturges | 2019-07-11 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Sidney Lumet | 2019-07-18 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Don Siegel | 2019-07-25 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Stanley Donen | 2019-08-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | George Stevens | 2019-08-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | John Frankenheimer | 2019-08-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Robert Wise | 2019-08-22 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Alan J Pakula | 2019-08-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Carol Reed | 2019-09-05 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Sergio Leone | 2019-09-12 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Sydney Pollack | 2020-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Otto Preminger | 2020-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Joseph Mankiewicz | 2020-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Robert Altman | 2020-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2020-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Peter Weir | 2020-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | John Schlesinger | 2020-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Brian De Palma | 2020-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Victor Fleming | 2020-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Anthony Mann | 2020-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2020-07-02 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Ridley Scott | 2020-07-09 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Martin Scorsese | 2020-07-16 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Oliver Stone | 2020-07-23 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Nicolas Roeg | 2020-07-30 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | David Lynch | 2020-08-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Preston Sturges | 2020-08-13 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2020-08-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | James L Brooks | 2020-08-27 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | Robert Aldrich | 2020-09-03 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Spike Lee | 2021-01-07 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Mike Nichols | 2021-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Ron Howard | 2021-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | William Friedkin | 2021-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Kathryn Bigelow | 2021-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Quentin Tarantino | 2021-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | J Lee Thompson | 2021-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Rob Reiner | 2021-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Stephen Frears | 2021-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | John Carpenter | 2021-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Stephen Spielberg | 2022-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | The Coen Brothers | 2022-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Wes Anderson | 2022-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | John Singleton | 2022-03-10 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Jonathan Demme | 2022-03-17 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | Christopher Nolan | 2022-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Nora Ephron | 2022-03-31 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Antoine Fuqua | 2022-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 9 | Barry Levinson | 2022-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | Alexander Payne | 2022-04-21 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | James Cameron | 2023-01-05 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Stephen Soderbergh | 2023-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | Milos Forman | 2023-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | Richard Linklater | 2023-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | Orson Welles | 2023-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | Philip Noyce | 2023-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | David Fincher | 2023-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | Nancy Meyers | 2023-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 9 | Clint Eastwood | 2023-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | Ang Lee | 2023-03-09 | 60 min |
