Martin Campbell
Director · b. 1943 · Hastings, New Zealand
Martin Campbell (born October 24, 1943) is a New Zealand director. Campbell is credited with rejuvenating the James Bond franchise when he directed GoldenEye (1995), Pierce Brosnan's first outing as the famed British spy, and Daniel Craig's debut Bond feature, Casino Royale (2006). Campbell moved to London where he began his career as a cameraman. He went on to produce the controversial British feature Scum (1979), as well as Black Joy (1977), which was selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Campbell made his directorial debut on the British police action series The Professionals (1977) and continued with the popular BBC series Shoestring (1979) and Thames TV's Minder (1979) Considered one of the U.K.'s top directors by the mid-'80s, he directed the highly praised British telefilm, Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983). For his work on Edge of Darkness (1985), a five-hour BBC miniseries about nuclear contamination in England that depicted murder and high-ranking corruption, he won six BAFTA awards. Campbell's first Hollywood movie was Criminal Law (1998) and he went on to direct Defenseless (1991) and No Escape (1994). Some of his American credits include directing HBO's Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) and two episodes of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), among others. He also directed the epic romance Beyond Borders (2003) starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen.
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Movie7.6AdventureActionLe Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Casino Royale
2006 · 12K votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryA documentary which shows the creation of Casino Royale (2006).
Becoming Bond
2006 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryMade for TV documentary including interview and behind the scenes footage from the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995 · 1 votes
Movie7.7DocumentaryThe stunts and action set pieces for the the 2006 James Bond adventure 'Casino Royale'.
James Bond: For Real
2006 · 5 votes
Movie6.7DocumentaryTV MovieElizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
The World of James Bond
1995 · 3 votes
Movie5.0TV MovieCanada's only sci-fi and fantasy television awards show. SPACE's annual celebration of genre entertainment. In a sea of boring television award shows, the SPACEYS is the only one that avoids podiums and red carpets. Instead, we take the show around the globe to stalk find the winners, wherever they happen to be, and present them with our much coveted silver alien-head statuette!
07 Spaceys
2007 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryShort behind the scenes making-of documentary about the filming of the sinking house palazzo and the Venetian piazza chase from the James Bond movie Casino Royale (2006).
Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo
2008 · 3 votes
MovieDocumentaryInterviews analyzing and looking back at the making of, and the impact made by, of one of the greatest epic films ever produced.
Movie6.0DocumentaryA behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film The Mask of Zorro (1998), including a brief history of the iconic character.
Unmasking Zorro
2001 · 2 votes
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A short documentary about the cast of GoldenEye.
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0Documentary
Teaser promotional documentary made for theaters and exhibitors, shot in 1994 during pre-production to promote the then upcoming James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
Building a Better Bond
2006 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Documentary
Martin Campbell directs Goldeneye.
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
2006 · 1 votes
- Movie5.5Documentary
A short documentary about the press of GoldenEye.
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary that traces the tangled rights to Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale," the first James Bond story, which took over a half century to reach the screen in recognizable form.
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A documentary about James Bond in the Bahamas.
MovieDocumentaryA documentary about Ian Fleming.
MovieDocumentaryA short documentary about Derek Meddings.
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Breaking down the Perrier truck stunt in GoldenEye.