Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Tide Of Death or The Lost City Of Z (Film)?

Longford was a major director of the. He formed a production team with Lottie Lyell. His contributions to Australian cinema with his ongoing collaborations with Lyell, including" The Sentimental Bloke"( 1919) and" The Blue Mountains Mystery"( 1921), prompted the Australian Film Institute's AFI Raymond Longford Award, inducted in 1968, named in his honour. Raymond Longford( 23 September 18782 April 1959) was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer and actor during the silent era. <SEP> Since his feature debut" Little Odessa" in 1994, he has made six other features, four of which competed for the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival. James Gray( born April 14, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. <SEP> The Lost City of Z is a 2016 American biographical adventure drama film written and directed by James Gray, based on the 2009 book of the same name by David Grann. It portrays real events surrounding the British explorer Percy Fawcett, who was sent to Brazil and made several attempts to find a supposed ancient lost city in the Amazon. The film stars Charlie Hunnam as Fawcett; Robert Pattinson as his fellow explorer, Henry Costin, Sienna Miller as his wife, Nina Fawcett; and Tom Holland as his son Jack Fawcett. The film's world premiere was on October 15, 2016 as the closing- night selection at the New York Film Festival. It was released in the United States on April 14, 2017, by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street. " The Lost City of Z" was praised by critics, though it grossed only$ 19 million against a$ 30 million budget. Despite this lack of financial success," Time" magazine listed it as one of its Top 10 Films of 2017. Although" Z" is pronounced" zee" in the film's U.S.- made promotional videos( even by the British actors), it is pronounced" zed" by the characters in the film, as per British English. <SEP> The Tide of Death is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on an original story by Longford. This was rare at the time because most Australian silent films were based on plays or novels. It is considered a lost film. <SEP> The Lost City is an independently made science fiction film serial created and produced in 1935 by Sherman S. Krellberg and directed by Harry Revier. <SEP> Theodore A." Ted" Morde( May 18, 1911 – June 26, 1954), an adventurer, explorer, diplomat, spy, journalist, and television news producer best known for his unverified claim of discovering the" Lost City of the Monkey God". Morde began his career as a radio announcer before getting into journalism. In 1940, he was hired to lead an expedition to search for the" Lost City of the Monkey God" in Honduras. After five months, he claimed to have found the city and brought thousands of artifacts back to the United States to prove it. He promised to return soon for a proper excavation, but never did, nor did he reveal the precise location of his find. Morde spent the later years of his life as a diplomat, then a producer of news films. He took his own life in 1954. In 2013, Christopher S. Stewart wrote a book about Morde and his hunt for a legendary" lost city" that some have equated with" la Ciudad Blanca". Douglas Preston's 2017 book" The Lost City of the Monkey God" shows that, based on Morde's own expedition journals, Morde never found any ruins and completely fabricated his story of having done so.