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Edwin S. Porter

Director · 140 credits · 32 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Frequent collaborators: Hugh Ford, J. Searle Dawley, Wallace McCutcheon Sr., James H. White, Lois Weber

Directed movies (138 total, ranked by score)

  1. Panorama of Blackwell's Island

    1903 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    61

  2. Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River

    1903 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    62

  3. The Prisoner of Zenda

    1913 · ★ 3.5 (2 votes)

    Adventure

    63

  4. Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.

    1903 · ★ 4.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    64

  5. The Boarding School Girls

    1905 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    65

  6. Rube and Mandy at Coney Island

    1903 · ★ 5.6 (5 votes)

    Comedy

    66

  7. I.B. Dam and the Whole Dam Family

    1905 · ★ 5.7 (3 votes)

    Comedy

    67

  8. The Price

    1911 · ★ 5.5 (2 votes)

    Drama

    68

  9. The Esquimaux Village

    1901 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    69

  10. Love by the Light of the Moon

    1901 · ★ 4.8 (5 votes)

    Romance, Fantasy, Comedy

    70

  11. Getting Evidence

    1906 · ★ 5.0 (3 votes)

    Comedy

    71

  12. The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken

    1901 · ★ 4.4 (9 votes)

    Comedy

    72

  13. The Attack on the Mill

    1910 · ★ 4.0 (1 votes)

    Drama

    73

  14. How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns

    1904 · ★ 5.3 (11 votes)

    Action, Comedy, Romance

    74

  15. Pan-American Exposition by Night

    1901 · ★ 5.8 (30 votes)

    Documentary

    75

  16. Faust and Marguerite

    1900 · ★ 3.8 (23 votes)

    Fantasy, Horror

    76

  17. The Life of an American Cowboy

    1906 · ★ 3.0 (1 votes)

    Western

    77

  18. Fighting the Flames, Dreamland

    1904 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Drama, History, Documentary

    78

  19. The Seven Ages

    1905 · ★ 4.5 (4 votes)

    Drama

    79

  20. Tess of the Storm Country

    1914 · ★ 5.4 (15 votes)

    Drama

    80

  21. The Train Wreckers

    1905 · ★ 5.0 (5 votes)

    Romance, Drama

    81

  22. The Count of Monte Cristo

    1913 · ★ 4.0 (4 votes)

    History, Drama

    82

  23. The Martyred Presidents

    1901 · ★ 2.9 (11 votes)

    Documentary, History

    83

  24. Capture of Yegg Bank Burglars

    1904 · ★ 4.0 (1 votes)

    Crime

    84

  25. College Chums

    1907 · ★ 5.3 (3 votes)

    Comedy

    85

  26. The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship

    1902 · ★ 5.1 (8 votes)

    Science Fiction

    86

  27. Babies Rolling Eggs

    1902 · ★ 4.0 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    87

  28. The Life of an American Policeman

    1905 · ★ 4.7 (6 votes)

    Drama

    88

  29. How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game

    1906 · ★ 5.3 (7 votes)

    Comedy

    89

  30. Capture of the Biddle Brothers

    1902 · ★ 4.0 (3 votes)

    Drama, Action, Crime

    90

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.