History of Movies.

Michael Powell

9.85body-of-work score · ranked #69 of 1774 directors · 11 films in our library

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

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. 1The Red Shoes19483.27
  2. 2A Matter of Life and Death19461.19
  3. 3Black Narcissus19471.13
  4. 449th Parallel19411.06
  5. 5The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp19430.96
  6. 6I Know Where I'm Going!19450.56
  7. 7A Canterbury Tale19440.54
  8. 8Peeping Tom19600.53
  9. 9The Thief of Bagdad19400.29
  10. 10The Small Back Room19490.16
  11. 11The Tales of Hoffmann19510.16