Best Early Color Films by Director
2672
38
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2497
30
John Murray Anderson, Pál Fejös
Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker
Music / Animation
USA
English
2734
39
Tex Avery
Elvia Allman, Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Bill Days, Paul Taylor Group, Bernice Hansen
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
2734
39
Tex Avery
Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, Danny Webb
Western / Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2734
39
Tex Avery
Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Arthur Q. Bryan, Hugh Farr
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2734
39
Tex Avery
Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, Joe Dougherty, Bernice Hansen, Martha Wentworth
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2734
39
Reginald Barker
Antonio Moreno, Renée Adorée, Gardner James, William Austin
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2734
39
Monta Bell
Zasu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman, Bernard Randall
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2639
34
Richard Boleslawski
Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2734
39
Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, Edgar Kennedy, Sam Lufkin
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2734
39
David Butler
Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglass Dumbrille, Karen Morley
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2775
42
David Butler
Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable
Family / Drama
USA
English
2672
38
John Capstaff
Mae Murray, Hope Hampton, Mary Eaton
Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2653
36
Robert Clampett
Mel Blanc
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2639
34
Alan Crosland
Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil, William Bakewell
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
532
5
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2639
34
Irving Cummings, Malcolm St. Clair, Buster Keaton
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Jed Prouty
Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
2734
39
Jack Cummings
Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Henry Armetta, Bonnie Bonnell
Comedy / Short / Musical
USA
English
155
4
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles
Action / Adventure / Romance / Family
USA
English
1706
14
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh
Western / Romance
USA
English
2009
18
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2600
32
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2646
35
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
2734
39
Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
Short / Fantasy / Horror / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2452
27
Roy Del Ruth
Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2734
39
Roy Del Ruth
Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy, Berton Churchill
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2027
19
Cecil B. DeMille
Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye, James Neill
Drama / Religion / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2468
29
Cecil B. DeMille
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2639
34
Cecil B. DeMille
Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid
Adventure / Drama / History / Mystery / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2734
39
Earl Duvall, Friz Freleng
Bernard B. Brown, Shirley Reed, The Rhythmettes, The Varsity Three
Family / Animation / Musical / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2734
39
Harry Edwards
Johnny Burke, Sally Eilers, Daphne Pollard, Matty Kemp, Carole Lombard
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2656
37
Pál Fejös
Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Musical / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2497
30
Dave Fleischer
Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
Animation / Short / Comedy / Musical / Family / Fantasy / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2734
39
Dave Fleischer
Jessica Dragonette, Lanny Ross, Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer, Sam Parker
Family / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
2734
39
Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer
Animation / Comedy
USA
English
45
1
Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Cult
USA
English
50
2
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / War / Romance / Epic
USA
English
2279
22
John Ford
Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine
Adventure / War / Western
USA
English
2639
34
Chester M. Franklin
Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran, Etta Lee
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2459
28
Thornton Freeland
Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2734
39
Friz Freleng
Tommy Bond, The Debutantes
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Music
USA
English
2672
38
Burt Gillett
Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Esther Campbell, Marion Darlington
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2672
38
Burt Gillett
Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Walt Disney, Mary Moder, Billy Bletcher
Animation / Musical / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2734
39
Burt Gillett
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash
Comedy / Family / Animation / Short
USA
English
2734
39
Nick Grinde
Pete Smith, Luis Alberni, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn
Comedy / Fantasy / Short
USA
English
2734
39
William F. Haddock
Francis Ford, Edith Storey
Short / Drama
USA
English
125
3
David Hand
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Billy Gilbert
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2656
37
David Hand
Billy Bletcher
Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical / Short / Mystery
USA
English
2639
34
Henry Hathaway
Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English
2767
40
Howard Hawks
George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Phyllis Haver, George Beranger
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
1715
15
Harry O. Hoyt, William Dowling
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
1692
13
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
2734
39
Wilfred Jackson
Clarence Nash
Comedy / Family / Animation / Short
USA
English
2459
28
F. Richard Jones
Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Adventure / Romance / Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2775
42
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
948
6
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2335
23
Henry King, Irving Cummings
Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull
Western / Biography
USA
English
1649
12
Zoltan Korda
John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Adventure / War
UK
English
2444
25
Zoltan Korda
Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson
Adventure / War / Drama
UK
English
2531
31
Len Lye, Norman McLaren, William Coldstream, Pat Jackson, Lotte Reiniger, Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Evelyn Corbett, Dwight Godwin, Charlotte Leigh
Documentary / Musical / Animation / Short / Experimental / Comedy / Romance
UK / Canada
English
2131
20
Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman
Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2639
34
Leo McCarey
Alan Hale, Kathryn Crawford, Walter O'Keefe, Josephine Dunn, Anita Garvin
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2163
21
Winsor McCay
George McManus, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan, Roy L. McCardell, Winsor McCay
Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2672
38
Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton
John Bunny, Winsor McCay, George McManus
Short / Animation / Documentary / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2639
34
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2734
39
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
France
French (Silent)
1235
9
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1345
11
Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Epic / Religion / Action / History
USA
English (Silent)
2639
34
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Léon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1174
8
Albert Parker
Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2639
34
Wray Bartlett Physioc
Grace Darmond, Niles Welch, Herbert Fortier, Violet Axzelle, Charles Brandt
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1293
10
Edwin S. Porter
A.C. Abadie, Walter Cameron
Short / Action / Crime / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2449
26
Luther Reed
Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Don Alvarado
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Western
USA
English
2616
33
Charles Reisner
Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Marion Davies
Musical
USA
English
2734
39
Dick Rickard
Don Wilson
Comedy / Family / Animation / Short
USA
English
2734
39
Albert S. Rogell
Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming, Will Stanton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2734
39
Victor Schertzinger
Richard Dix, Julie Carter, Jane Novak, Larry Steers, Tully Marshall, Bernard Siegel
Western / Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2639
34
Harold D. Schuster
Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports
UK
English
2531
31
Ben Sharpsteen, Clyde Geronimi, Dick Lundy, Jack King, Jeff Kurtti
Florence Gill, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Billy Bletcher, Cliff Edwards
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2734
39
Ben Sharpsteen
Tommy Bupp
Family / Comedy / Animation / Musical / Short
USA
English
1756
16
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2672
38
Robert R. Snody
Marjorie Lord, Jimmy Lydon, Ruth Lee, Harry Shannon, Adora Andrews, Douglas Stark
Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2381
24
Norman Taurog, George Cukor, H.C. Potter, William A. Wellman
Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson, Walter Brennan
Family / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
2734
39
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Leo Carrillo, Ted Fio Rito, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Short / Music
USA
English
2734
39
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Patsy Kelly, Roy Fant, Judy Garland, Marjorie Beebe, Janet Reade
Short / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2639
34
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
1095
7
William A. Wellman
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1772
17
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
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2444
25
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2734
39
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)