1972 directorial debut films

1972 film by Bruce Lee

1972 film directed by Wes Craven

1972 film directed by Douglas Trumbull

1972 animated film by Ralph Bakshi

1972 film by Charlton Heston

1972 film by Larry Hagman

1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton

Z.P.G. (short for "Zero Population Growth") is a 1972 British-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Michael Campus and starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin. It was inspired by the best-selling 1968 non-fiction book The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich. The film concerns an overpopulated future Earth whose world government executes those who violate a 30-year ban on having children. Filmed in Denmark, the film is almost entirely set-bound featuring art direction designed to reflect a bleak, oppressive future.

1972 blaxploitation film by Gordon Parks, Jr.

Marjoe is a 1972 American documentary film directed and produced by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan about Pentecostal preacher Marjoe Gortner, who was ordained as a preacher at only age four and became an evangelist sensation in the 1940s.

1972 film by Dick Richards

1972 film by Robert Bolt

1972 film by Robert Culp

1972 film by Sidney Poitier

1972 film by Shunya Itō

1972 film by Ivan Dixon

1972 film by Francesco Massaro

1972 film directed by Raúl Artigot

1972 film by Stan Dragoti

1972 film directed by Howard Avedis

1972 film by B. V. Karanth, Girish Karnad

1972 film directed by Bruce Beresford

1972 film by Paul Bartel

1972 film by Arnold Perl

1972 film by George C. Scott

1972 film by Michael Apted