Artists •
Andy Warhol, American artist, film director, and producer •
Fernand Léger, French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker •
Hans Richter (artist), German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. •
Paul Sharits, visual artist, best known for his work in experimental, or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the structural film movement •
Robert Breer, American experimental filmmaker, painter, and sculptor
Filmmakers •
Andrew Noren, Andrew Noren was an American avant-garde filmmaker •
Brian de Palma, American film director and screenwriter •
Bruce Baillie, American experimental filmmaker •
David Attenborough, British television executive, presenter and natural history producer •
David Lynch, American director •
Gregory Markopoulos, American experimental filmmaker •
James Broughton, American poet and poetic filmmaker •
Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic •
Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". •
Kenneth Anger, Kenneth Anger is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author •
Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker, painter, and socialite. •
Maya Deren, Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker and important promoter of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. •
Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and film producer •
Quentin Tarantino, American filmmaker and actor •
Ridley Scott, English filmmaker •
Robert Beavers, American experimental filmmaker •
Stan Brakhage, James Stanley Brakhage, better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. •
Steven Spielberg, American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. •
Terry Gilliam, American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe •
Will Vinton, American animator and filmmaker •
Wim Wenders, German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema.
Actors •
James Dean, American actor •
Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer
Intellectuals •
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award. •
Haroun Tazieff, Polish, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. •
Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents. == Documentaries ==