Question: Were When We Were Kings and The American Ruling Class directed by the same person?
Context: The Deva Tribe form the vast majority of the Singhalese population.  Being one of the first tribes flourishing on the island of Sri Lanka it is natural that many Kings in Sri Lanka's old history were from the Deva.  The Deva are therefore the Royal Tribe which provided Sinhalese Monarchs, Statesmen, Military Leaders (Kshatriya) and Learned Men and Priests (Brahmins) in Ceylon until the Nayakkar Kings of South Indian origin snatched power during the Kandyan era.  Sri Lanka's Deva tribes (Naga / Raksha) who were the traditional ruling class of the island later became the Kshatriya and Brahmin castes of the classic Aryan Varnas of North India in the Middle Ages. American rapper Azealia Banks has appeared in twenty music videos, two films, one television program and two commercials.  As a teenager, Banks studied at the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.  A film opportunity arose through the school, and at the age of fourteen, Banks featured in the film "The American Ruling Class", portraying a singer and a dancer in a cameo role.  In 2010, Banks' first music video was released for a demo track titled "L8R", which would go on to be included on her debut mixtape "Fantasea" two years later.  The following year, Banks' second music video was released for her breakout single "212", and has since amassed over one-hundred million views on Banks' official YouTube channel.  During the promotional campaign of Banks' debut EP "1991", all songs on the project received a video treatment, including her sophomore single "Liquorice", shot by acclaimed director Rankin.  Months after the video for "Liquorice" was released, an alternate version was leaked.  In July 2012, Banks released her debut mixtape "Fantasea".  To promote the mixtape, Banks released three music videos for tracks on the project, "Luxury", "Atlantis", and "Fierce", the latter being shot with clothing company ASOS. When We Were Kings is a 1996 Academy Award winning documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.  The fight was held in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) on October 30, 1974. Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.  She was a near-contemporary of American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France.  Her sympathetic renderings of the American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era. The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film.  It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play "The Ruling Class" which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O'Toole) who inherits a peerage.  The film co-stars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour, James Villiers and Arthur Lowe.  It was produced by Jules Buck and directed by Peter Medak. The Duguwa dynasty is the line of kings ("mai") of the Kanem Empire prior to the rise of the Islamic Seyfawa dynasty in 1068.  According to the Girgam, the Duguwa kings were the kings of Kanem whose dynastic name is derived from Duku, the third king of the Duguwa.  Comparisons with accounts from Arab geographers show that the Duguwa were the kings of the ruling class called Zaghawa. Class consciousness is a term used in political theory, particularly Marxism, to refer to the beliefs that a person holds regarding their social class or economic rank in society, the structure of their class, and their class interests.  It is an awareness that is key to sparking a revolution that would, "create a dictatorship of the proletariat, transforming it from a wage-earning, property-less mass into the ruling class" according to Karl Marx. Wabenzi is an Anglicization of the pejorative Bantu colloquialism WaBenzi, originally used in Kenya to refer to members of the new ruling class that superseded the colonial regime, that has come to refer to the new ruling class in any post-colonial African country.  The term usually refers to a corrupt government official, or family member of one, and derives from their being seen as driving an imported car.  "Wa" is a prefix that refers to people in some Bantu languages; "benzi" comes from Mercedes-Benz, a car perceived as prestigious.  The Anglicized form is more common than the original Bantu WaBenzi. The American Ruling Class is a 2005 dramatic documentary film written by Lewis H. Lapham and directed by John Kirby that "explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic."  It seeks to answer the question, "Does America have a ruling class?"  Its producers consider it the first "dramatic-documentary-musical."  A rough-cut of the film was shown at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, the final version of the film was shown on the Sundance Channel in July 2007, and it had its theatrical premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2008. In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society—the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that their imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm; the universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic "status quo" as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.
Answer: no