Barbara Kopple

American film/documentary director

1.28body-of-work score · ranked #732 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
July 30, 1946 · New York City
Nationality
United States
Work
film producer, film director, director, documentarian
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Barbara Kopple
LaShawnda Jones · CC BY-SA 4.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    1976 · United States · documentary

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #225 · National Film Registry (inducted 1990) · Siskel's annual top 10 1977 #6

    1.125 citations
  2. 2

    1990 · United Kingdom / United States · documentary

    Criterion Collection spine #1324

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 16 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1972Winter Soldier
  • 1976Harlan County, USA
  • 1980No Nukes
  • 1990American Dream
  • 1993Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
  • 1997Wild Man Blues
  • 1999A Conversation With Gregory Peck
  • 2000My Generation
  • 2005Havoc
  • 2006Shut Up & Sing
  • 2007High School Musical: The Music in You
  • 2013Running from Crazy
  • 2015Miss Sharon Jones!
  • 2016Killing the Colorado
  • 2018ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black
  • Desert One