Charles Burnett
Known for: Directing
Born: April 13, 1944
Place of birth: Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
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Filmography
44 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
3.0
Hollywood Black
2024
6.1
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
NR
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022
6.0
Cinetracts '20
2020
NR
A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019
NR
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
5.2
We Blew It
2017
NR
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016
6.0
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
7.4
These Amazing Shadows
2011
6.0
42 One Dream Rush
2010
4.4
Relative Stranger
20095.2
Quiet as Kept
2007
6.0
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
6.9
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003
7.4
The Blues
20039.0
For Reel?
2003
6.4
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
7.0
Finding Buck McHenry
20007.0
Olivia's Story
2000
6.4
The Annihilation of Fish
1999
6.6
Independent Lens
1999
7.2
Selma, Lord, Selma
1999
8.3
The Wedding
199810.0
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997
NR
The Final Insult
1997
6.2
Nightjohn
1996
5.7
When It Rains
1995
5.2
The Glass Shield
1994
NR
Sa-I-Gu
1993
10.0
America Becoming
1991
6.8
To Sleep with Anger
1990
3.3
Guests of Hotel Astoria
1989
10.0
From Rags to Reality
1989
9.0
Crocodile Conspiracy
1986
7.1
My Brother's Wedding
1985
6.6
Bless Their Little Hearts
1984
6.1
Illusions
1982
8.0
A Different Image
1982
5.4
The Pocketbook
1980
6.7
Bush Mama
1979
8.0
Your Children Come Back to You
1979
6.6
Killer of Sheep
1978
4.9
Welcome Home Brother Charles
1975
5.9
The Horse
1973
5.5
Several Friends
19691.0
69 Pickup
1969