Filmmakers
1. 
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
by:
Robert Rodríguez
4.18 avg rating — 5,314 ratings 2. 
Alt.Film Journal! How I Made A Low-Budget Indie Film for $32,000
by:
Eric Bickernicks
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 3. 
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968
by:
Andrew Sarris
4.03 avg rating — 539 ratings 
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Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw 3.84 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
by:
Dana Stevens
4.19 avg rating — 1,581 ratings 
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Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics
by:
Carol Vernallis
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 23. 
For My Eyes Only - Directing the James Bond Films: The Autobiography of John Glen
by:
John Glen
3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings 23. 
Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
by:
Marilyn Ann Moss
3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings 25. 
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Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
by:
Oliver Stone
4.10 avg rating — 2,024 ratings 
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The Best Film You've Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or Critically Savaged Movies They Love
by:
Robert K. Elder
3.56 avg rating — 133 ratings 29. 
The autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille
by:
Cecil B. DeMille
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 29. 
Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
by:
Therese Grisham
3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors 4.34 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
by:
Jimmy McDonough
3.99 avg rating — 360 ratings 44. 
Fred Zinnemann: An Autobiography : A Life in the Movies
by:
Fred Zinnemann
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 
48. 
Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger: The Authorised Biography
by:
William J. Mann
3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings 48. 
Seesaw, a Dual Biography of Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks
by:
William Holtzman
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 50. 
George Cukor, Master of Elegance: Hollywood's Legendary Director and His Stars
by:
Emanuel Levy
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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John Hughes: A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more
by:
Kirk Honeycutt
3.62 avg rating — 239 ratings 
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
by:
Tracey Goessel
4.10 avg rating — 147 ratings 
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If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
by:
David Weddle
4.36 avg rating — 306 ratings 72. 
Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare the Pants off America
by:
William Castle
4.23 avg rating — 305 ratings 72. 
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Show Me The Magic - My Adventures in Life and Hollywood
by:
Paul Mazursky
3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings 74. 
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
by:
Shawn Levy
3.97 avg rating — 287 ratings 
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Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (Volume 48) (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
by:
Noah Isenberg
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
by:
Paul Schrader
4.08 avg rating — 1,046 ratings 
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Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder
by:
Gene D. Phillips
3.90 avg rating — 77 ratings 88. 
A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
by:
Paul M. Buhle
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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You're the Director...You Figure It Out. the Life and Films of Richard Donner
by:
James Christie
4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This: True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade
by:
Bruce Beresford
3.48 avg rating — 75 ratings 
96. 
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
by:
Donald Spoto
3.87 avg rating — 1,560 ratings 
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