William Greaves

Known for DirectingBorn 1926-10-08Died 2014-08-25New 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Trans Canada Summer

The Dikes

Hollywood Black

Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey

Four Religions

Blood and Fire

Smoke and Weather

Putting It Straight

From These Roots

The Fighters

Nationtime

Voice of La Raza

Black Journal

The Fight Never Ends

Discovering William Greaves

Miracle in Harlem

That's Black Entertainment

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

The First World Festival of Negro Arts

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Emergency Ward

Islands of the Frozen Sea

Bush Doctor

Souls of Sin

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½

Lost Boundaries

Bustin' Loose

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane

Sepia Cinderella

Every Nigger Is a Star

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

The Man Who Built Cambodia

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

The Best of Black Journal

The Deep North

Frederick Douglass: An American Life

Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story

Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

Space For Women

Where Dreams Come True

Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)

The Marijuana Affair

Whose Standard English?

The Fight

On Merit

Black Journal: 23; New-Ark