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Rob Epstein

film director, producer

0.86body-of-work score · ranked #972 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

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

Born
April 6, 1955 · New Brunswick
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, film producer, writer, screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Rob Epstein
hinnk · CC BY-SA 3.0

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
    The Times of Harvey Milk

    1984 · United States · documentary

    National Film Registry (inducted 2012) · Criterion Collection spine #557

    0.392 citations
  2. 2
    The Celluloid Closet

    1995 · United States · documentary

    Sarris's annual top 10 1996 #3

    0.251 citation
  3. 3
    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

    1989 · United States · documentary

    National Film Registry (inducted 2024)

    0.231 citation

Complete filmography

All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.