William Greaves
Known for: Directing
Born: October 7, 1926 in New York City, New York, USA - Died: August 24, 2014
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.
Known for
Showing 24 of 52 titles
The Man Who Built Cambodia
Self
Miracle in Harlem
Bert Hallam
The Fight Never Ends
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Self
Discovering William Greaves
Self
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Self - Director
Souls of Sin
Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
Lost Boundaries
Arthur 'Art' Cooper
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Narrator
That's Black Entertainment
Host/Narrator
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Self
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Narrator/Interviewer
Sepia Cinderella
Patron
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Self (archival footage)
Where Dreams Come True
Director
The Marijuana Affair
Director
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
Producer
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Director
Emergency Ward
Director
Space For Women
Director
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
Director
Blood and Fire
Editor
The Dikes
Sound
Wealth of a Nation
Editor