The Directors

Martin Scorsese was born on 17th November 1942 in Queens, New York. His directorial career began to take off in the 1970s and since then, he has won BAFTAs, Oscars, and Golden Globe Awards. Some of Scorsese's most dynamic films include Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1981), Goodfellas (1990), and The Departed (2006).

Francis For Coppola was born on April 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. Coppola is an award-winning director whose most iconic films include the Godfather trilogy, Patton (1970), and 1979s Apocalypse Now. His career began in the 1960s and he is still working today.

Film director Anthony Mann, born in 1906, is best remembered for his work in the film noir. He directed films for a variety of production companies, from RKO to MGM, and worked with many major stars of the era. He made several Westerns with James Stewart, such as Winchester '73 (1950), and he was the director of the medieval epic El Cid (1961), working with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. He also directed the big-budget film Cimarron (1960), which starred Glenn Ford and Maria Schell.