Known for Directing
Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker and film producer noted for his sprawling war films. He has been described as a "throwback to an earlier era, an extremely cerebral director whose movies consistently feature fully rounded characters, difficult moral issues, and plots that thrive on the ambiguity of authority." Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Zwick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
October 8, 1952 (age 74)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography
51 films, 25 shows


Trial by Fire
2019 · 2h 7m · US
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.


Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 · 1h 58m · CN
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.


Pawn Sacrifice
2015 · 1h 55m · US
During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.


Love & Other Drugs
2010 · 1h 52m · US
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.


Defiance
2008 · 2h 17m · US
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.


Blood Diamond
2006 · 2h 23m · DE
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.


The Last Samurai
2003 · 2h 34m · US
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.


The Siege
1998 · 1h 56m · US
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.


Courage Under Fire
1996 · 1h 56m · US
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...


Legends of the Fall
1994 · 2h 13m · US
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.


Leaving Normal
1992 · 1h 50m · US
Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come to terms with her unfortunate history. Along the way, she meets Marianne, an impulsive young woman leaving an abusive relationship. The two hit the road together and keep driving north, bonding over the hardships that they have endured and meeting a number of eccentric characters as they get closer to their destination.


Glory
1989 · 2h 2m · US
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.


About Last Night...
1986 · 1h 53m · US
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.


Special Bulletin
1983 · 1h 43m · US
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.


Having It All
1982 · 1h 40m · US
Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.


Paper Dolls
1982 · 1h 40m
Pilot for the TV series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.


Timothy and the Angel
1976 · 10m
A young man decides not to go to college on a baseball scholarship but remain at his summer forest ranger's job. This is Edward Zwick's first short film, which won first place in the student film competition at the 1976 Chicago Film Festival.