214 filmmakers from 40 countries are included in this engrossing look at cinema from around the world. Among those included are Hector Babenco, Bernardo Bertolucci, Kenneth Branagh, Luis Bunuel, Francis Ford Coppola, Alex Cox, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Milos Forman, Chen Kaige, Neil Jordan, Elem Klimov, Akira Kurosawa, George Lucas, Jiri Menzel, Mira Nair, Istvan Szabo, Agnes Varda, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders, Lina Wertmuller, and Zhang Yimou.