Edward Zwick

Edward Zwick

1952-10-08 Chicago, Illinois, USA 38 Credits

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.

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Trial by Fire

Trial by Fire

2019

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

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

Woman Walks Ahead

2018

Producer

6.7
Producing

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

American Assassin

2017

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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

The Great Wall

2016

Story

6.0
Writing

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

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

2016

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

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

The Birth of a Nation

2016

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Pawn Sacrifice

2015

Director, Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Cut Bank

Cut Bank

2014

Producer

5.7
Producing

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

About Alex

2014

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

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

Love & Other Drugs

2010

Director, Screenplay, Producer

7.0
Directing Writing Producing

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

Defiance

2008

Director, Writer, Producer

6.8
Directing Writing Producing

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

365 Day Project

2007

10.0
Acting

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

Blood Diamond

2006

Director, Producer

7.5
Directing Producing

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

The Last Samurai

2003

Director, Screenplay, Producer

7.6
Directing Writing Producing

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

Abandon

2002

Producer

4.8
Producing

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

Women vs. Men

2002

Executive Producer

4.5
Producing

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

Lone Star State of Mind

2002

Executive Producer

5.4
Producing

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

I Am Sam

2001

Producer

7.6
Producing

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

Traffic

2000

Producer

7.1
Producing

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'

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

2000

as Self

6.5
Acting
Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love

1998

Producer

6.9
Producing

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

The Siege

1998

Director, Producer, Screenplay

6.3
Directing Producing Writing

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

Dangerous Beauty

1998

Producer

7.1
Producing

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

Good Will Hunting

1997

Thanks

8.2

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

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997

as Self

6.2
Acting

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire

1996

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Legends of the Fall

1994

Director, Producer

7.4
Directing Producing

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

Leaving Normal

1992

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Extreme Close-Up

1990

Story, Executive Producer

Writing Producing

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

Glory

1989

Director

7.5
Directing

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...

About Last Night...

1986

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Special Bulletin

1983

Director, Story, Producer

7.0
Directing Writing Producing

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

Having It All

1982

Director

5.0
Directing

Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.

Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls

1982

Director

3.7
Directing

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

Timothy and the Angel

Timothy and the Angel

1976

Director

Directing

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

Writing Producing

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

Directing

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

Billy Summers

N/A

Writer

Writing

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 ...