🎬 Director
William Greaves
🎂 Born 8 October 1926 (age 87)✝ 25 August 2014📍 New York City, New York, USA
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Popularity Score
13
Acting Credits
19
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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
Directed Films(19)
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
Director
★ 8.0
Nationtime
1972
Director
★ 8.0
The Fighters
1974
Director
The Fight
1974
Director
★ 8.0
Voice of La Raza
1971
Director
★ 6.0
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
Director
★ 6.9
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
Director
★ 6.3
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
Director
The Marijuana Affair
1975
Director
★ 7.0
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
Director
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985
Director
★ 7.0
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
Director
Wealth of a Nation
1964
Director
★ 7.0
That's Black Entertainment
1989
Director
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989
Director
★ 8.0
From These Roots
1974
Director
★ 7.0
Emergency Ward
1959
Director
In the Company of Men
1969
Director
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976
Director
Full Filmography(13 films)
YearTitleRating
2026Once Upon a Time in Harlem—1986Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?★ 6.01947Sepia Cinderella★ 5.21949Lost Boundaries★ 6.61968Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One★ 6.92005Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½★ 6.31948The Fight Never Ends★ 8.01948Miracle in Harlem★ 7.52017The Man Who Built Cambodia—1966The First World Festival of Negro Arts★ 7.01989That's Black Entertainment★ 7.01949Souls of Sin★ 7.02006Discovering William Greaves★ 7.0