Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen Trailers

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Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE (born October 9, 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. He has received an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and the BFI Fellowship, and is the first black filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, winning for 12 Years a Slave (2013). For services to the visual arts, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011, and in 2014 he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world".

Most Popular Steve McQueen Trailers

Total trailers found: 32

12 Years a Slave Trailer (2013)

18 October 2013

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Widows Trailer (2018)

06 November 2018

A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities.

Shame Trailer (2011)

02 October 2011

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex.

Blitz Trailer (2024)

01 November 2024

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings.

Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel Trailer (2022)

16 October 2022

An in-depth look of the 40 year journey, from post-war Germany to Hollywood royalty, of Hans Zimmer, the man who’s become the dominant force in the world of movie soundtracks.

Static Trailer (2009)

04 July 2009

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It was shot shortly after the monument was fully re-opened following the September 11th attacks.

Deadpan Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Deadpan is a four-minute installation film in which McQueen re-stages a death-defying Buster Keaton stunt.

Grenfell Trailer (2023)

07 April 2023

In December 2017 Steve McQueen made an artwork in response to the fire that took place earlier that year on 14 June at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, West London.

Living the Light: Robby Müller Trailer (2018)

20 September 2018

For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier.

Gravesend Trailer (2007)

27 January 2007

Gravesend uses a documentary approach to focus on the mining of coltan, employed in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and other high-tech apparatus.

Bear Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issues about race, homoeroticism and violence.

Caribs' Leap Trailer (2002)

05 September 2002

Caribs’ Leap / Western Deep comprises two complementary films that are shown together as a three-screen, synchronised colour video projection.

Hunger Trailer (2008)

15 May 2008

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

Western Deep Trailer (2002)

01 September 2002

An exploration of the sensory experience of the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, showing migrant labourers working in dark, claustrophobic environments and the ear-splitting noise of drilling.

Charlotte Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

A close-up fixes on the eye of British actor Charlotte Rampling. McQueen's finger moves around her eye, pulling the skin and momentarily touching her eyeball.

Cold Breath Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

Cold Breath depicts the artist stroking, pulling and squeezing his nipple. Through a gesture that appears tender one moment and violent the next, the film is an intimate exploration of flesh as material.

Giardini Trailer (2009)

05 September 2009

Giardini, a visually sumptuous film of 30 minutes, is composed of two projections set side-by-side, which steadily gather a series of evocative vignettes.

Exodus Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

The film documents two men carrying palm trees through the streets of East London. McQueen tracked the men through a bustling Brick Lane market.

Five Easy Pieces Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Outlines the themes and artistic strategies that have guided McQueen’s work since he emerged in the mid-1990s.

Ashes Trailer (2014)

14 October 2014

Ashes (2002-2015) a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name.

All Day / I Feel Like That Trailer (2015)

07 March 2015

Kanye West performs for the camera.

Illuminer Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

McQueen lies in bed in a Paris hotel, watching a dubbed TV programme about American special forces being trained for combat in Afghanistan.

Drumroll Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

Director Steve McQueen attached three cameras to the front and each end of an oil drum and rolled it through the streets of Manhattan.

7th Nov. Trailer (2001)

26 February 2001

The title refers to the day McQueen's cousin Marcus accidentally shot his brother. On the soundtrack, Marcus tells a story while a single backlit photographic slide shows him lying on his back, the top of his head dominating the frame.

Girls, Tricky Trailer (2001)

06 August 2001

Director Steve McQueen films Trip-Hop artist Tricky recording 'Girls' In the tight confines of a recording booth, the musician Adrian Thomas, also known as Tricky, repeatedly performs the song 'girls' from his album Blowback (2001).

Just Above My Head Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

The artist walks with a stride, his camera pointed up from around his stomach. The sky, some trees and occasionally his head pops up in the lower third.

Sunshine State Trailer (2022)

31 March 2022

Steve McQueen’s first new artwork since his major commission Year 3 at Tate Britain in 2019, Sunshine State is a two-channel video projection shown on both sides of two screens placed one next to the other.

Occupied City Trailer (2023)

30 November 2023

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.

The Shadow Scholars Trailer (2024)

17 October 2024

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing.

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance Trailer (2021)

25 March 2021

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era.

Three Minutes: A Lengthening Trailer (2022)

02 December 2022

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk (Poland) before the beginning of the Shoah.

Subnormal Trailer (2021)

20 May 2021

The UK schools scandal through the eyes of Black parents, teachers, and activists who banded together to expose the injustice and force the education system to change.