Paul Greengrass

Directing

Paul Greengrass

Born 1955-08-13 · Cheam, Surrey, England, UK

Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and former journalist. One of his early films, Bloody Sunday (2002), won the Golden Bear at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films Greengrass has directed include three entries of the Bourne action-thriller film series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016). He also directed United 93 (2006), for which Greengrass won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director; as well as Green Zone (2010) and Captain Phillips (2013). In 2004, he co-wrote and produced the film Omagh, which won the Single Drama award from the British Academy Television Awards. In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28th on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood in 2007. In 2008, The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture. In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Greengrass, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean poster
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Profiles the double Oscar winner, who helmed some of the most well-respected movies of all time, via never-before-seen archive and contributions from leading film directors. Haunted by the shadow of his dismissive father and his puritan upbringing, Lean was married six times, and he created layered and complex narratives in his work while struggling to find connection and meaning in his personal life.

Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean

2026

Capturing Captain Phillips poster
6.5

A vast and detailed look into the behind the scenes of Captain Phillips (2013). Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks, cast and crew members of the film takes us to a tour inside the ship and its actual location, the concept and creation of the film's most intense and dramatic sequences, and as usual, stories about the making the film which also highlights the four newcomers who played the important parts of the Somali pirates.

Capturing Captain Phillips

2014

Five Came Back poster
7.9

The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”

Five Came Back

2017

Turning Like Clockwork poster
4.0

A look back on A Clockwork Orange

Turning Like Clockwork

2011

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light poster
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A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

2016

Granada: From the North poster
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The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, and highly praised drama from Brideshead Revisited to Prime Suspect. With contributions from Jeremy Isaacs, Gus Macdonald, David Plowright, Michael Parkinson, Gerry Robinson and Sir Denis Forman. Director David Thompson

Granada: From the North

1992

Behind the camera

The Bourne Ultimatum poster
7.4

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

The Bourne Ultimatum

2007

Jason Bourne poster
6.4

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

Jason Bourne

2016

Jason Bourne poster
6.4

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

Jason Bourne

2016

Jason Bourne poster
6.4

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

Jason Bourne

2016

The Bourne Supremacy poster
7.3

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

The Bourne Supremacy

2004

The Uprising poster
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As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.

The Uprising

2026

The Uprising poster
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As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.

The Uprising

2026

The Uprising poster
NR

As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.

The Uprising

2026

Captain Phillips poster
7.5

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Captain Phillips

2013

The Lost Bus poster
7.0

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.

The Lost Bus

2025

The Lost Bus poster
7.0

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.

The Lost Bus

2025

United 93 poster
7.1

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

United 93

2006

United 93 poster
7.1

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

United 93

2006

United 93 poster
7.1

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

United 93

2006

Green Zone poster
6.5

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

Green Zone

2010

Green Zone poster
6.5

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

Green Zone

2010

News of the World poster
6.9

A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.

News of the World

2020

News of the World poster
6.9

A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.

News of the World

2020

22 July poster
7.1

On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

22 July

2018

22 July poster
7.1

On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

22 July

2018

Bloody Sunday poster
7.2

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Bloody Sunday

2002

Bloody Sunday poster
7.2

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Bloody Sunday

2002

Resurrected poster
6.4

A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

Resurrected

1989

The Theory of Flight poster
6.3

Richard is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to meet Jane, a young woman dying of motor neuron disease. After they strike up a friendship, Jane asks Richard to help fulfill her deepest wish: to lose her virginity before her death.

The Theory of Flight

1999