American Noir (Chronological shots in the dark)
By: Flying Dutchman

A roughly chronological list. It gives me a chance to view the genre in relation to each other as I watch more additions to the list. I’m trying to keep some sort of control over what I consider a noir, there are some looser interpretations but I have left out many that are often termed noir by others. They all fall within the universally accepted cycle of Noir from 1941 to 1958 except The Letter (1940) but to my mind its certainly a fitting inclusion here.
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01William Wyler
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02John Huston
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03Raoul Walsh
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04Stuart Heisler
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05Alfred Hitchcock
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06Alfred Hitchcock
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07Billy Wilder
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08Otto Preminger
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09Edward Dmytryk
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10Robert Siodmak
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11Fritz Lang
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12Howard Hawks
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13Edgar G. Ulmer
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14Edward Dmytryk
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15Billy Wilder
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16Michael Curtiz
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17Fritz Lang
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18Howard Hawks
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19George Marshall
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20Robert Siodmak
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21John Brahm
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22Alfred Hitchcock
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23Charles Vidor
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24Robert Rossen
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25Orson Welles
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26Elia Kazan
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27Jules Dassin
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28Edmund Goulding
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29John Cromwell
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30Anthony Mann
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31Edward Dmytryk
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32Jacques Tourneur
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33Anthony Mann
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34George Cukor
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35Abraham Polonsky
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36Robert Siodmak
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37Anthony Mann
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38Alfred L. Werker
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39John Huston
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40Orson Welles
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41Jules Dassin
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42Nicholas Ray
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43Fred Zinnemann
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44Anthony Mann
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45Joseph H. Lewis
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46Carol Reed
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47Robert Wise
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48Jules Dassin
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49Max Ophüls
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50John Huston
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51Rudolph Maté
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52Anthony Mann
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53Fritz Lang
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54Nicholas Ray
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55Otto Preminger
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56Billy Wilder
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57Billy Wilder
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58William Wyler
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59Joseph Losey
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60John Berry
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61Edward Dmytryk
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62Otto Preminger
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63Nicholas Ray
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64Joseph Losey
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65Fritz Lang
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66Ida Lupino
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67Samuel Fuller
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68Robert Aldrich
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69Joseph H. Lewis
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70Charles Laughton
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71Phil Karlson
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72Stanley Kubrick
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73Alfred Hitchcock
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74Mark Robson
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75Paul Wendkos
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76Alexander Mackendrick
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77Orson Welles