Biography
Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker and film producer noted for his sprawling war films. He has been described as a "throwback to an earlier era, an extremely cerebral director whose movies consistently feature fully rounded characters, difficult moral issues, and plots that thrive on the ambiguity of authority." Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Zwick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Trial by Fire
2019
Director, Producer
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and ...

Woman Walks Ahead
2018
Producer
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off wit...

American Assassin
2017
Screenplay
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate...

The Great Wall
2016
Story
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
Director, Screenplay
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when...

The Birth of a Nation
2016
Executive Producer
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation...

Pawn Sacrifice
2015
Director, Producer
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Cut Bank
2014
Producer
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But hi...

About Alex
2014
Executive Producer
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their l...

Love & Other Drugs
2010
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly inf...

Defiance
2008
Director, Writer, Producer
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet par...

365 Day Project
2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for ...

Blood Diamond
2006
Director, Producer
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missio...

The Last Samurai
2003
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...

Abandon
2002
Producer
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a t...

Women vs. Men
2002
Executive Producer
Seeking the excitement that was once part of their married lives, Bruce and Michael slip out one night to a gentleman's club. When their wives, Dana a...

Lone Star State of Mind
2002
Executive Producer
Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap...

I Am Sam
2001
Producer
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. ...

Traffic
2000
Producer
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
as Self

Shakespeare in Love
1998
Producer
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman a...

The Siege
1998
Director, Producer, Screenplay
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent ...

Dangerous Beauty
1998
Producer
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of que...

Good Will Hunting
1997
Thanks
Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult graduate-...

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Courage Under Fire
1996
Director
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...

Legends of the Fall
1994
Director, Producer
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unco...

Leaving Normal
1992
Director
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the wa...

Extreme Close-Up
1990
Story, Executive Producer
Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of th...

Glory
1989
Director
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

About Last Night...
1986
Director
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.

Special Bulletin
1983
Director, Story, Producer
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news...

Having It All
1982
Director
Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.

Paper Dolls
1982
Director
Pilot for the TV series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.

Timothy and the Angel
1976
Director
A young man decides not to go to college on a baseball scholarship but remain at his summer forest ranger's job. This is Edward Zwick's first short fi...
The Making Of
N/A
Writer, Producer
Long-married filmmakers have cast overemotional actors to portray their younger selves in the story of their great love. Unfortunately, by the time sh...
Soul ReViver
N/A
Director
If a soul is taken back before it disappears, dead people can be revived. "Salvage of soul" is held between dead and nothing. Toru Fujisawa creates ...

Billy Summers
N/A
Writer
Billy Summers is a hitman who is looking to retire and takes one last highly lucrative job to feather his nest. The job requires him to embed himself ...