William Greaves
Directing
1926-10-08 · New York City, New York, USA
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
TheatersOnce Upon a Time in Harlem
2026 · Movie
Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017 · Movie
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007 · Movie
Discovering William Greaves
2006 · Movie
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005 · Movie
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
2001 · Movie
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989 · Movie
That's Black Entertainment
1989 · Movie
The Deep North
1988 · Movie
The Best of Black Journal
1988 · Movie
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986 · Movie
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985 · Movie
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
1984 · Movie
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
1982 · Movie
Space For Women
1981 · Movie
Bustin' Loose
1981 · Movie
Where Dreams Come True
1979 · Movie
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976 · Movie
The Marijuana Affair
1975 · Movie
From These Roots
1974 · Movie
The Fighters
1974 · Movie
The Fight
1974 · Movie
Every Nigger Is a Star
1974 · Movie
Whose Standard English?
1974 · Movie
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Movie
On Merit
1972 · Movie
Voice of La Raza
1971 · Movie
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
1970 · Movie
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970 · Movie
Black Journal: 18
1969 · Movie
Black Journal: 9
1969 · Movie
In the Company of Men
1969 · Movie
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968 · Movie
Black Journal
1968 · Series
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968 · Movie
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966 · Movie
Wealth of a Nation
1964 · Movie
Four Religions
1960 · Movie
Emergency Ward
1959 · Movie
High Arctic
1959 · Movie
Blood and Fire
1958 · Movie
Islands of the Frozen Sea
1958 · Movie
Smoke and Weather
1958 · Movie
Trans Canada Summer
1958 · Movie
Profile of a Problem Drinker
1957 · Movie
Putting It Straight
1957 · Movie
Bush Doctor
1955 · Movie
The Dikes
1955 · Movie
Souls of Sin
1949 · Movie
Lost Boundaries
1949 · Movie
Miracle in Harlem
1948 · Movie
The Fight Never Ends
1948 · Movie
Sepia Cinderella
1947 · Movie