
Directing
William Greaves
- Born
- October 8, 1926
- Died
- August 25, 2014
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Greaves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Known for

The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017
7.5Miracle in Harlem
1948
8.0The Fight Never Ends
1948
5.9Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
7.0Discovering William Greaves
2006
6.8Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
7.0Souls of Sin
1949
6.6Lost Boundaries
1949
7.0The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
7.0That's Black Entertainment
1989
6.0Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
5.2Sepia Cinderella
1947

Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
3.0Hollywood Black
2024

The Marijuana Affair
1975
5.0Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
1970
7.0Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
7.0Emergency Ward
1959