William Greaves
Birthday: 1926-10-08
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Greaves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Man Who Built Cambodia
An architect whose iconic buildings defined a newly independent Cambodia struggles to come to terms ...
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Miracle in Harlem
A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is ...
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The Fight Never Ends
Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "g...
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pairs of acto...
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Discovering William Greaves
A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise A...
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with ...
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Souls of Sin
Unsuccessful gambler 'Dollar Bill' Burton lives in a crummy New York basement room with old friend B...
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Lost Boundaries
A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the tru...
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The First World Festival of Negro Arts
"This documentary film covers a 24-day arts festival in Dakar, Senegal that highlighted Black contri...
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That's Black Entertainment
This documentary presents clips from black films from 1929 through 1957....
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Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen ...
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Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black comm...
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Sepia Cinderella
A struggling songwriter abandons his girlfriend for a flashy woman after landing a hit....
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