Charles Burnett
Directing
1944-04-13 · Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
Filmography
Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Movie
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022 · Movie
Cinetracts '20
2020 · Movie
A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019 · Movie
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018 · Movie
We Blew It
2017 · Movie
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016 · Movie
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014 · Movie
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Series
These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Movie
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Movie
Relative Stranger
2009 · Movie
Quiet as Kept
2007 · Movie
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 · Movie
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003 · Movie
The Blues
2003 · Series
For Reel?
2003 · Movie
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Movie
Finding Buck McHenry
2000 · Movie
Olivia's Story
2000 · Movie
The Annihilation of Fish
1999 · Movie
Independent Lens
1999 · Series
Selma, Lord, Selma
1999 · Movie
The Wedding
1998 · Movie
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997 · Movie
The Final Insult
1997 · Movie
Nightjohn
1996 · Movie
When It Rains
1995 · Movie
The Glass Shield
1994 · Movie
Sa-I-Gu
1993 · Movie
America Becoming
1991 · Movie
To Sleep with Anger
1990 · Movie
Guests of Hotel Astoria
1989 · Movie
From Rags to Reality
1989 · Movie
Crocodile Conspiracy
1986 · Movie
My Brother's Wedding
1985 · Movie
Bless Their Little Hearts
1984 · Movie
Illusions
1982 · Movie
A Different Image
1982 · Movie
The Pocketbook
1980 · Movie
Bush Mama
1979 · Movie
Your Children Come Back to You
1979 · Movie
Killer of Sheep
1978 · Movie
Welcome Home Brother Charles
1975 · Movie
The Horse
1973 · Movie
Several Friends
1969 · Movie
69 Pickup
1969 · Movie