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William Greaves

Directing

  • Born
  • October 8, 1926
  • Died
  • August 25, 2014
  • Place of birth
  • New York City, New York, USA

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.

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As actor 15

Hollywood Black poster
Hollywood Black
2024
Once Upon a Time in Harlem poster
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One poster
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
Sepia Cinderella poster
Sepia Cinderella
1947
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ poster
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
The Fight Never Ends poster
The Fight Never Ends
1948
Lost Boundaries poster
Lost Boundaries
1949
The Man Who Built Cambodia poster
The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017
Miracle in Harlem poster
Miracle in Harlem
1948
Discovering William Greaves poster
Discovering William Greaves
2006
That's Black Entertainment poster
That's Black Entertainment
1989
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? poster
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
The First World Festival of Negro Arts poster
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
Souls of Sin poster
Souls of Sin
1949

On the crew 45

Once Upon a Time in Harlem poster
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
Bustin' Loose poster
Bustin' Loose
1981
Nationtime: Gary poster
Nationtime: Gary
1972
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One poster
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
The Dikes poster
The Dikes
1955
Black Journal
1968
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ poster
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
The Fight poster
The Fight
1974
Bush Doctor
1955
Voice of La Raza poster
Voice of La Raza
1971
Where Dreams Come True
1979
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class poster
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
Space For Women
1981
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane poster
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
1970
The Fighters poster
The Fighters
1974
On Merit
1972
Wealth of a Nation poster
Wealth of a Nation
1964
Profile of a Problem Drinker
1957
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice poster
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989
Islands of the Frozen Sea poster
Islands of the Frozen Sea
1958
That's Black Entertainment poster
That's Black Entertainment
1989
The Marijuana Affair poster
The Marijuana Affair
1975
The Deep North
1988
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
2001
Every Nigger Is a Star poster
Every Nigger Is a Star
1974
Smoke and Weather
1958
Four Religions
1960
High Arctic
1959
Whose Standard English?
1974
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
1982
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? poster
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
Emergency Ward poster
Emergency Ward
1959
The Best of Black Journal
1988
In the Company of Men poster
In the Company of Men
1969
From These Roots poster
From These Roots
1974
The First World Festival of Negro Arts poster
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
Frederick Douglass: An American Life poster
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985
Trans Canada Summer poster
Trans Canada Summer
1958
Putting It Straight
1957
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
1984
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) poster
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976
Black Journal: 9
1969
Black Journal: 18
1969
Blood and Fire poster
Blood and Fire
1958