Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films.
He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer- director in film history.
His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship.
His silent films were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
De Mille began his career as a stage actor in 1900.
He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer.
DeMille's first film," The Squaw Man"( 1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood.
Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry.
The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor.
His first biblical epic," The Ten Commandments"( 1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty- five years.
De Mille directed" The King of Kings"( 1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers.
" The Sign of the Cross"( 1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique.
" Cleopatra"( 1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with" Samson and Delilah"( 1949), a biblical epic which became the highest- grossing film of 1950.
Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward" neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature.
He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
His last and best known film," The Ten Commandments"( 1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth- highest- grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d' Or( posthumously) for" Union Pacific"( 1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor.
DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors.
Yojimbo
Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film.
In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon".
William Henry Locke
William Henry Locke was a chaplain for the Union during the American Civil War.
In his book," The Story of the Regiment", he told the story of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment.
Enthiran (film series)
Enthiran( English:" Robot") is an Indian Tamil- language science fiction action film series directed, produced and written by S. Shankar.
The music for the films was composed by A. R. Rahman.
It consists of a two- part film series.
The first film was" Enthiran" which released on 1 October 2010 and the second film was" 2.0", which released on 29 November 2018.
Both films were blockbusters, making 2.0 the second highest- grossing franchise film in India.
Rajinikanth appeared in the role of Dr. Vaseegaran and Chitti in both films.
The Story of David
The Story of David( 1976) was a two- part, 3.2 hour American television movie dramatizing the biblical story of King David.
It starred Timothy Bottoms as the young David, Keith Michell as the older David, Anthony Quayle as King Saul, and Jane Seymour as Bathsheba.
Produced by Columbia Pictures Television for the American Broadcasting Company( ABC- TV), it premiered on 9 April 1976.
It was filmed in Israel and Spain.
" The Story of David" was a kind of sequel to" The Story of Jacob and Joseph"( 1974), also produced for ABC- TV( broadcast two years earlier) and involving many of the same cast and crew.
Melody Gilbert
Melody Gilbert is an award- winning independent documentary filmmaker, and educator from Washington, D.C. now living in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
She has directed, filmed, produced, and sometimes edited, seven independent feature- length documentaries since 2002.
The Documentary Channel calls her" one of the most fearless filmmakers in contemporary documentary cinema."
She is currently an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern State University.
The films that Melody directs and films are noteworthy for featuring a rare intimacy with her subjects as she unearths previously hidden worlds.
She works mostly solo with a small camera and wireless microphone and has the ability to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts, whether it's the family of a child who ca n't feel pain(" A Life Without Pain," 2005), people who want to be an amputee(" Whole," 2003), a former Vice President of the United States( 2008), or people who have full- fledged relationships with synthetic companions(" Silicone Soul", 2018).
All of her films have been made available on Netflix and iTunes and been in prestigious film festivals and broadcast internationally on networks in Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, and more.
She also serves as a producer and writer for other documentary projects she believes in, including BENEATH THE INK( nominated for a 2019 national Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary), WOMEN OUTWARD BOUND( 2016/ PBS) and the James Beard award- winning THE STARFISH THROWERS( 2015).
Most recently Melody was a producer/ story consultant for LOVE THEM FIRST:
LESSONS FROM LUCY LANEY ELEMENTARY( 2019/KARE11-TV/national broadcast in October 2019).
I Want Your Love (film)
I Want Your
Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film.
Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews.
The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons.
The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes.
The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword.
This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.
Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness
Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness is a documentary film about urban exploration directed by Melody Gilbert.
The Story of Dr. Wassell
The Story of Dr. Wassell is a 1944 American Technicolor World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso and Dennis O'Keefe.
The film was based on a book of the same name by novelist and screenwriter James Hilton.
The book and film were inspired by the wartime activities of U.S. Navy Doctor Corydon M. Wassell which were referred to by President Roosevelt in a radio broadcast made in April 1942.
The appropriate section of this broadcast appears toward the end of the film.
For their work on this film, Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and George Dutton received a nomination for the Oscar for Best Effects.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.

Question: Are the directors of both films The Story Of Dr. Wassell and Urban Explorers: Into The Darkness from the same country?
Answer: yes