Director
William Greaves
1926New York City, New York, USA19 Films
William Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was a documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of African-American filmmaking. He produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these. Greaves garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations, one of which he won for his work as executive producer on the African-American news program Black Journal.
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
6.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989
That's Black Entertainment
1989
6.0
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976
The Marijuana Affair
1975
From These Roots
1974
The Fighters
1974
The Fight
1974
8.0
Nationtime
1972
Voice of La Raza
1971
In the Company of Men
1969
7.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
7.0
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
Wealth of a Nation
1964