Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 08, 1926
Died
Aug 25, 2014
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
54 titles
William Greaves
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.
Known For
Filmography
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Self (archival footage)
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Built Cambodia
Self
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Self
Discovering William Greaves
Self
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Self
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Editor
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Producer
That's Black Entertainment
Host/Narrator
The Deep North
Director
The Best of Black Journal
Director
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Narrator/Interviewer
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Director
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
Producer
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
Editor
Space For Women
Director
Bustin' Loose
Executive Producer
Where Dreams Come True
Director
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
Director of Photography
The Marijuana Affair
Director
From These Roots
Director
The Fighters
Editor
Every Nigger Is a Star
Cinematography
The Fight
Director
Whose Standard English?
Director
Nationtime: Gary
Writer
On Merit
Director
Voice of La Raza
Editor
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
Producer
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Producer
Black Journal: 18
Director
Black Journal: 9
Director
In the Company of Men
Director
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Self - Director
Black Journal
Executive Producer
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Director
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Narrator
Wealth of a Nation
Editor
Four Religions
Editor
Emergency Ward
Director
High Arctic
Writer
Blood and Fire
Editor
Islands of the Frozen Sea
Editor
Smoke and Weather
Editor
Trans Canada Summer
Sound
Profile of a Problem Drinker
Editor
Putting It Straight
Director
Bush Doctor
Sound
The Dikes
Sound
Souls of Sin
Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee