George Lucas - Director
Nationality: American. Born: George Walton Lucas Jr., Modesto, California, 14 May 1944.
Sidney Lumet - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Philadelphia, 25 June 1924.
Louis Lumière - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Besançon, 5 October 1864.
David Lynch - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Missoula, Montana, 20 January 1946.
Alexander Mackendrick - Director
Nationality: Scottish. Born: Boston, 1912.
Dušan Makavejev - Director
Nationality: Yugoslavian. Born: Belgrade, 13 October 1932.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Director
Nationality: Iranian. Born: Tehran, 1957 (some sources say 1952).
Terrence Malick - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Waco, Texas, 30 November 1943.
Louis Malle - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Thumeries, France, 30 October 1932.
Nils Malmros - Director
Nationality: Danish. Born: Born Nils Sigurd Malmros, Aarhus, Denmark, 5 October 1944.
Djibril Diop Mambety - Director
Nationality: Senegalese. Born: Dakar, Senegal, 1945.
Rouben Mamoulian - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Tiflis, Caucasia, Russia, 8 October 1897; became U.S.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Joseph Leo Mankiewicz in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 11 February 1909.
Anthony Mann - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Anton or Emil Bundsmann in Point Loma or San Diego, California, 1907.
Michael Mann - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Chicago, Illinois, 5 February 1943.
Chris Marker - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve in Neuilly sur Seine (one source says Ulan Bator, Mongolia), 29 July 1921.
Gregory Markopoulos - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Toledo, Ohio, 12 March 1928.
John Kennedy Marshall - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 12 November 1932.
Albert Maysles and David Paul - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Albert born in Brookline, Massachusetts, 26 November 1926; David Paul born in Brookline, 10 January 1932.
Leo McCarey - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Los Angeles, 3 October 1898.
Mehboob Khan - Director
Nationality: Indian. Born: Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan in Bilmora, in the Gandevi Taluka of Baroda State, India, 1909.
Jonas Mekas - Director
Nationality: Lithuanian. Born: Semeniskiai, 24 December 1922.
Jean-Pierre Melville - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Jean-Pierre Grumbach in Paris, 20 October 1917.
Jirí Menzel - Director
Nationality: Czech. Born: Prague, 23 February 1938.
Márta Mészáros - Director
Nationality: Hungarian. Born: Budapest, 19 September 1931.
Russ Meyer - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Oakland, California, 21 March 1922.
Oscar Micheaux - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Metropolis, Illinois, 1884.
Nikita Mikhalkov - Director
Nationality: Russian. Born: Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky in Moscow, 21 October 1945.
Lewis Milestone - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Family name Milstein; born in Chisinau, near Odessa, Russia, 30 September 1895, became U.S.
Claude Miller - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Paris, 20 February 1942.