Director Michael Powell Filmography – WMO Award Winner: Greatest Director in Movie History
Channel: World Movie Organization
Date: 2020-11-30

In the Annus Horribilis 2020, the film scientists of the World Movie Organization (WMO) an organization seeking to Unite Nations thru Excellence in Film selected Michael Powell to be the Greatest Movie Director of All Time. In addition the WMO named Emeric Pressburger as the Best Screenwriter of All Time. The WMO is financed through the support of the Rockafool Foundation and the Bill and Linda Gates Pub. By nature of the scientific selection of Michael Powell as Best Director, we must not deny it to be true.

Here, the World Movie Organization presents a medley of all the full-length motion pictures directed by Michael Powell, from his breathtaking debut in The Edge of the World (1937) through his final film The Age Consent (1969), this medley takes us on a breathtaking journey through the Powell film canon, with an irreplaceable contribution from Emeric Pressburger who wrote the screenplays to most of these films. Included on this breathtaking film journey are the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Best British Movie All Time, Best Male Bonding Movie All Time), A Matter of Life and Death (Most Heavenly Movie), The Red Shoes (Best Movie About Art and Sacrifice, Best Ballet Movie), I Know Where I'm Going (Most Magical Romance) and more. 

This Michael Powel Filmography does not include short movies from his early quota quickie days (e.g. Red Ensign, The Firestarters),  propaganda documentaries (e.g. The Lion Has Wings), or other wonderful shorts such as Herzog Blaubarts Burg or The Boy Who Turned Yellow. 

Here are the movies of Michael Powell by year of release:

The Edge of the World (1937)
The Spy in Black (1939)
Contraband (1940)
The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
49th Parallel (1941) aka The Invaders
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1955)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947) 
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Small Back Room (1949)
Gone to Earth (1950) aka The Wild Heart
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)  aka The Fighting Pimpernel
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955)
The Battle of the River Plate (1956) aka Pursuit of the Graf Spree
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) aka Night Ambush
Luna de Miel (1959) aka Honeymoon 
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Queen's Guards (1961)
They're a Weird Mob (1966)
Age of Consent (1969)