James Cameron Filmography

James Cameron's Sanctum

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron serves as co-writer and co-producer of director Gary Johnstone's high-definition 3-D feature concerning an ambitious father/son deep-sea expedition that turns life-threatening when the crew descends to uncharted depths to explore the underwater Read More

The Lost Tomb of Jesus

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Director/producer/screenwriter Simcha Jacobovichi teams with executive producer James Cameron to explore the possibility that a first-century tomb unearthed in Jerusalem in 1980 may have once held the remains of Jesus Christ. In the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem, a bulldozer inadvertently Read More

The Exodus Decoded

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Cameron, Simcha Jacobovici

Synopsis: Producer James Cameron teams with director Simcha Jacobovici to explore the Biblical story of Exodus in a History Channel documentary that travels from Israel to Egypt and Greece to explore the many mysteries of a fascinating religious enigma. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Entourage: Aquamom

Explorers: From the Titanic to the Moon

Actors: Buzz Aldrin, James Cameron

Aliens of the Deep

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Dijanna Figueroa, Pan Conrad, Kelly Snook, Kevin Hand, James Cameron

Synopsis: Few who witnessed the awesome spectacle of the Titanic emerging from the darkness of the ocean depths in James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss are likely to forget that spectacular sight, and now the groundbreaking filmmaker journeys even deeper into unexplored territory with this look at Read More

Entourage: The Abyss

Entourage: The Sundance Kids

Entourage: The Bat Mitzvah

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Actors: James Cameron, Joe Dante, Dede Allen, Jerry Bruckheimer, Conrad Buff, Donn Cambern, Richard Chew, Anne V. Coates, Rob Cohen, Chris Columbus, Wes Craven, Jodie Foster, Antony Gibbs, Mark Goldblatt, Paul Hirsch, Alan Heim, Tina Hirsch, Peter Honess, Joe Hutshing, Michael Kahn, Lawrence Kasdan, Chris Lebenzon, Carol Littleton, George Lucas, Richard Marks, Craig McKay, Sally Menke, Anthony Minghella, Walter Murch, Alexander Payne, Sean Penn, Tom Rolf, Howard Smith, Pietro Scalia, Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Zach Staenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Tent, Michael Tronick, Frank J. Urioste, Paul Verhoeven, Jay Cassidy, Kevin Tichenor, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Editing teaches the viewer how editors compile strips of film in order to create memorable moviegoing experiences. In addition to interviews with a variety of respected and award-winning editors, the movie offers clips form some of the most memorable films in the Read More

Ghosts of the Abyss

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Filmmaker James Cameron has long been fascinated with the ill-fated maiden voyage of the great ship the Titanic, and he used the story as the backdrop for his most famous and successful movie. In the summer of 2001, Cameron and his good friend Bill Paxton (who appeared in Titanic) joined a Read More

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ed Harris

Synopsis: Canadian documentary filmmaker Stephen Low directs the IMAX movie Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, with Titanic director James Cameron as the executive producer. During its brief 40-minute running time, the film starts out with a 1977 expedition to find life at the bottom of the sea. At depths as low as Read More

Solaris

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis

Synopsis: A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities -- and ends up having to deal with an entity of his own -- in this second film version of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical sci-fi novel. Solaris stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a Read More

Dark Angel: Freak Nation

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Synopsis: It is the final stand between the transgens and their enemies in this special 90-minute episode. The connection between anti-transgen White (Martin Cummins) and the "Sandeman" responsible for the creation of such Manticore mutants as Joshua (Kevin Durand) has finally been revealed. As human Read More

James Cameron's Expedition: Bismarck

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Fred Griffith

Synopsis: Launched on May 18, 1941, the Nazi battleship Bismarck was the largest war vessel of its kind ever built. Wasting no time in making its mark on the Second World War, the Bismarck spent the first eight days of its existence cutting a swath of destruction and devastation throughout the Read More

The Alien Saga

Synopsis: Originally aired on AMC, this documentary focuses on one of the most horrifying series ever to be committed to celluloid -- the Alien film series. With interviews from most of the main players, including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, and H.R. Giger, the special goes through Read More

Dark Angel: Pilot

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Dark Angel begins its two-season run with a feature-length episode establishing both characters and premise. Back in the year 2009, young Max Guevara (Geneva Locke) escaped from Manticore, a sinister laboratory creating human prototypes with heavy doses of animal DNA. A lab creation herself, Max Read More

Dark Angel [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: One of the few new Fox Network series of the 2000-2001 season to be tagged as a "sure winner," Dark Angel was produced, written, co-created, and co-directed by James Cameron, of Terminator and Titanic fame. Nineteen-year-old Jessica Alba shed her ingenuous Flipper image as Max Guevara, the Read More

The Muse

Actors: Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Bridges, Mark Feuerstein

Synopsis: Actor/writer/director Albert Brooks turns his satiric gaze on the film industry in this comedy about a screenwriter who has hit a rough patch. Steven Philips (played by Brooks) has enjoyed a celebrated career in Hollywood, but one day he has a meeting with his agent, who informs him his career is Read More

Mad About You: The Finale

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Ellen DeGeneres guest stars as Nancy Bloom, a former caterer whom Paul (Paul Reiser) had indirectly fired from the set of his "Making of Titanic" documentary. Through a twist of fate, Nancy is now the Buchmans' nanny -- but is she responsible for the brief "misplacement" of baby Mabel? Titanic Read More

Titanic

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher

Synopsis: This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more Read More

Terminator 2: 3-D

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward Furlong, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Synopsis: This 12-minute short featuring much of the cast and crew of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) cost $60 million to produce, making it the most expensive venture per minute in movie history. The film was the centerpiece of a multimedia attraction at the Universal Studios Florida theme park in Read More

Strange Days

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott

Synopsis: Set in Los Angeles two days before the end of 1999, Strange Days introduces us to Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), an ex-cop turned sleazy hustler who hawks the newest underground thrill on the black market: a "squid," a headpiece that allows one to transmit digital recordings of other people's Read More

True Lies

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman Read More

Last Action Hero

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Frank McRae, Anthony Quinn, Charles Dance, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a Read More

Point Break

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Kathryn Bigelow's fourth action film follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and Read More

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen

Synopsis: A sequel to the low-budget sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor Read More

The Abyss

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmeister, Todd Graff

Synopsis: The crew of an experimental, high-tech submersible is called into action to investigate a mysterious nuclear submarine crash. A series of strange encounters leads the crew to suspect the accident was caused by an extraterrestrial craft, and that they may be participating in an encounter with an Read More

Aliens

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew Read More

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Julia Nickson, Steven Berkoff

Synopsis: The dark-horse box-office hit First Blood spawned this even more successful sequel in which Sylvester Stallone, reprising his role as ex-Green Beret loner John Rambo, is extricated from prison by his former superior Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) for a top-secret operation to bring back POWs Read More

The Terminator

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: Endlessly imitated, The Terminator made the reputation of cowriter/director James Cameron -- who would go on to make 1997's titanic Titanic -- and solidified the stardom of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie begins in a post-apocalyptic 2029, when Los Angeles has been largely reduced to rubble and Read More

Piranha II: The Spawning

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen, Ricky G. Paull, Ted Richert, Leslie Graves

Synopsis: This poorly scripted horror film about miniature, finny "jaws" details the mating rituals of the fictional "grunion" fish (falsely introduced as "piranhas" for more box-office recognition) and their need to attack and kill humans -- either inside or outside the water. These saber-toothed wonders Read More

Galaxy of Terror

Crew: Production Designer, Second Unit Director

Actors: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens, Zalman King

Synopsis: Also known as Planet of Horrors, this film follows a group of astronauts as they travel into space to retrieve the survivors of a spaceship crash. When they arrive on the planet, the crew runs into some hostile aliens who attempt to gorily wipe them out. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Battle Beyond the Stars

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Darlanne Fluegel

Synopsis: Produced by Roger Corman and scripted by John Sayles, Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheerfully blatant imitation of The Seven Samurai (or at least the American remake The Magnificent Seven). A peaceloving planet is attacked by malevolent aliens. The powers-that-be hire a group of mercenaries Read More