Michael Mann filmography

known for directing, producing, and writing various works of film and television.

Filmography

Films

Short films

• Insurrection (1968)
• Jaunpuri (1971)
• 17 Days Down the Line (1972)

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1981	Thief	Yes	Yes	Executive
1983	The Keep	Yes	Yes	No
1986	Band of the Hand	No	No	Executive
Manhunter	Yes	Yes	No
1992	The Last of the Mohicans	Yes	Yes	Yes
1995	Heat	Yes	Yes	Yes
1999	The Insider	Yes	Yes	Yes
2001	Ali	Yes	Yes	Yes
2003	Baadasssss!	No	No	Executive
2004	Collateral	Yes	No	Yes
	The Aviator	No	No	Yes
2006	Miami Vice	Yes	Yes	Yes
2007	The Kingdom	No	No	Yes
2008	Hancock	No	No	Yes
2009	Public Enemies	Yes	Yes	Yes
2011	Texas Killing Fields	No	No	Yes
2015	Blackhat	Yes	No	Yes
2019	Ford v Ferrari	No	No	Executive
2023	Ferrari	Yes	No	Yes

Television

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
1976	Bronk	No	Yes	No	2 episodes
	Gibbsville	No	Yes	No	Episode: "All the Young Girls"
1975–77	Starsky & Hutch	No	Yes	No	4 episodes
1976–78	Police Story	No	Yes	No	4 episodes
1977	Police Woman	Yes	No	No	Episode: "The Buttercup Killer"
1978–81	Vega$	No	Yes	No	Creator
1984–90	Miami Vice	No	Yes	Yes	Wrote episode " Golden Triangle "
1986–88	Crime Story	Yes	story	Yes	Wrote 8 episodes; Directed "Top of the World"
1990	Drug Wars: The Camarena Story	No	Yes	Yes	Miniseries
2002–03	Robbery Homicide Division	No	Yes	Yes	Wrote episode "Life is Dust"
2011–12	Luck	Yes	No	Yes	Directed "Pilot"
2012	Witness	No	No	Yes	Documentary series
2022	Tokyo Vice	Yes	No	Yes	Directed "The Test"[1][2]
	Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers	No	No	Yes	Documentary series

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer
1979	The Jericho Mile	Yes	Yes	No
1980	Swan Song	No	Yes	No
1989	L.A. Takedown	Yes	Yes	Yes
1992	Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel	No	Yes	Yes

Unrealized projects

Year	Title and description	Ref.
1970s	A film adaptation of Pete Hamill's novel Dirty Laundry	[3]
1980s	Untitled film set in the Golden Triangle	[4][5]
1990s	A film adaptation of Richard Preston's 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone"	[6]
	Untitled biopic about Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano	[7]
	Untitled biopic about actor James Dean starring Leonardo DiCaprio	[8][9][10]
	Untitled biopic about Armenian arms merchant Sarkis Soghanalian	[11]
	Good Will Hunting	[12]
	The Inside Man, a legal drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio	[13][14]
	Untitled film epic written by Shane Salerno about drug trade in Southern California	[15][16][14]
	The Aviator	[17][18][14]
	A film adaptation of Steven Pressfield's novel Gates of Fire written by David Self	[19][14][10]
2000s	Untitled biopic of Julius Caesar written by John Orloff starring Tom Hanks	[20][14][10]
	Shooter starring Brad Pitt as Bob Lee Swagger	[14]
	Hatfields and McCoys, a drama about the Hatfield–McCoy feud written by Eric Roth starring Brad Pitt	[21]
	The Few, a biopic about World War II fighter pilot Billy Fiske written by John Logan starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer	[22][23]
	Arms and the Man, a film about Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout based on an article by Peter Landesman	[24][25][10]
	Fortune's Fools, a crime drama about five officers who steal a winning lottery ticket from a drug dealer	[26]
	A film adaptation of James L. Swanson's novel Manhunt starring Harrison Ford	[23]
	Hancock, retitled from Tonight, He Comes	[27][10]
	A film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Leonardo DiCaprio	[28][29][10]
	Damage Control, a sports drama about a spin doctor who represents troubled players starring Jamie Foxx	[30][31]
	Comanche, a Western inspired by the Comanche capture of Cynthia Ann Parker	[32][33][5]
	A film adaptation of Alexander Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko's novel Death of a Dissident	[34][10]
	Untitled 1930s L.A.-set noir drama written by John Logan starring Leonardo DiCaprio	[35][36][37]
	Empire, a drama written by John Logan about a modern global media mogul starring Will Smith	[38]
	Frankie Machine, a film adaptation of Don Winslow's novel written by Alex Tse starring Robert De Niro	[39][40][10]
	Untitled film epic written by Paul Webb set in post-Communist Russia	[41]
	A film adaptation of Susana Fortes' novel Waiting for Robert Capa written by Jez Butterworth starring Andrew Garfield and Gemma Arterton	[42][43][44]
2010s	A feature film version of the Netflix series House of Cards starring Al Pacino	[45]
	A film adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novel Agincourt written by Benjamin Ross and Stuart Hazeldine	[46][47][48]
	Big Tuna, a mafia film based in Chicago about the story of Tony Accardo and his successor Sam Giancana written by Sheldon Turner	[46][49][50]
	Gold starring Christian Bale as Kenny Wells	[51][52]
	A film adaptation A.J. Baime's novel Go Like Hell starring Brad Pitt	[53][54]
	The Big Stone Grid, a cop thriller written by S. Craig Zahler about two decorated detectives who uncover an extortion ring	[55][56][10]
	The Tam, a film set in the South China Sea written by Alex Sage	[57]
	Untitled sci-fi film	[29][58][33]
	A miniseries adaptation of Mark Bowden's novel Hue 1968	[59][5]
	A film adaptation of Elaine Shannon's novel Hunting LeRoux	[60][61]
2020s	A film adaptation of his and Meg Gardiner's novel Heat 2 starring Adam Driver	[62][63]
	A remake of the 2015 Korean film Veteran	[64]

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