William Greaves
Known for: Directing
Born: October 8, 1926
Died: August 25, 2014
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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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Filmography
52 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
3.0
Hollywood Black
2024
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The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017NR
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
7.0
Discovering William Greaves
2006
5.9
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
20059.0
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
2001
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Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989
7.0
That's Black Entertainment
1989NR
The Deep North
1988NR
The Best of Black Journal
1988
6.0
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
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Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985NR
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
1984NR
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
1982NR
Space For Women
1981
6.2
Bustin' Loose
1981NR
Where Dreams Come True
1979
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Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976
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The Marijuana Affair
1975
8.0
From These Roots
1974
8.0
The Fighters
1974
1.0
Every Nigger Is a Star
1974NR
Whose Standard English?
1974
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The Fight
1974
8.0
Nationtime: Gary
1972NR
On Merit
1972
8.0
Voice of La Raza
1971
5.0
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
1970NR
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970NR
Black Journal: 18
1969NR
Black Journal: 9
1969
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In the Company of Men
1969
6.8
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
19688.0
Black Journal
1968
7.0
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
7.0
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
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Wealth of a Nation
19649.0
Four Religions
1960
7.0
Emergency Ward
1959NR
High Arctic
1959
9.0
Blood and Fire
19589.0
Smoke and Weather
1958
10.0
Trans Canada Summer
1958
7.0
Islands of the Frozen Sea
1958NR
Profile of a Problem Drinker
19579.0
Putting It Straight
19577.0
Bush Doctor
1955
10.0
The Dikes
1955
7.0
Souls of Sin
1949
6.6
Lost Boundaries
1949
7.5
Miracle in Harlem
1948
8.0
The Fight Never Ends
1948
5.2
Sepia Cinderella
1947