Charles Burnett

Known for DirectingBorn 1944-04-13 (age 82)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Documenta X - Die Filme

America Becoming

From Rags to Reality

Hollywood Black

For Reel?

Crocodile Conspiracy

The Wedding

A Different Image

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Your Children Come Back to You

These Amazing Shadows

The Blues

Selma, Lord, Selma

Olivia's Story

Finding Buck McHenry

Warming by the Devil's Fire

My Brother's Wedding

To Sleep with Anger

Independent Lens

Bush Mama

The Annihilation of Fish

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Killer of Sheep

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Cinetracts '20

Bless Their Little Hearts

Dreams Are Colder Than Death

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

Nightjohn

Illusions

When It Rains

The Horse

We Blew It

Quiet as Kept

The Pocketbook

Several Friends

42 One Dream Rush

The Glass Shield

Welcome Home Brother Charles

Relative Stranger

69 Pickup

Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts

A Walk with Charles Burnett

The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA

The Final Insult

Sa-I-Gu