Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
News of the World
2020
Director, Screenplay
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.
22 July
2018
Director, Writer
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 Osl...
Five Came Back
2017
as Self
The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five leg...
Jason Bourne
2016
Director, Producer, Writer
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
Captain Phillips
2013
Director
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...
Turning Like Clockwork
2011
as Self
A look back on A Clockwork Orange
Green Zone
2010
Director, Producer
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 ...
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
Director
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...
United 93
2006
Producer, Screenplay, Director
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 ...
Omagh
2005
Producer, Writer
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relativ...
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Director
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 M...
Bloody Sunday
2002
Director, Screenplay
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1999
Writer, Director
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminatin...
The Theory of Flight
1999
Director
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young wo...
The Fix
1997
Director, Writer
The story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jai...
The One That Got Away
1996
Director, Screenplay
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition togeth...
Open Fire
1994
Director, Writer
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite...
Granada: From the North
1992
as Self
The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, an...
Resurrected
1989
Director
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
Night of Camp David
N/A
Director, Producer
A junior U.S. senator comes to believe that the president is mentally unbalanced and sliding into paranoia as he seeks closer ties to the Soviet Union...
The Rage
N/A
Director, Writer, Producer
During the Peasants Revolt in 14th century England, a farmer becomes a leader of a rebellion against the Crown, led by a then 14-year-old King Richard...
Untitled Jimi Hendrix Film
N/A
Director
A biography of rock 'n' roll guitar icon Jimi Hendrix.
Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421
N/A
Producer, Director
A plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean six minutes after takeoff, and is flooded after an explosion during evacuation. A dozen survivors sink in a seale...
The Lost Bus
N/A
Director, Screenplay
Bus driver Kevin McKay and school teacher Mary Ludwig navigate a bus full of children through a deadly wildfire as the town of Paradise is caught in t...
Ness
N/A
Director, Producer
Cleveland, 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph over Al Capone and associates, set his sights on Cleveland and went on a crusade...