Directing · geboren 1926-10-08 · New York City, New York, USA

William Greaves

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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• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) – Self - Director
• Einmal und nie wieder (1981) – Executive Producer
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ (2005) – Self
• Lost Boundaries (1949) – Arthur 'Art' Cooper
• Sepia Cinderella (1947) – Patron
• Hollywood Black (2024) – Self (archive footage)
• Miracle in Harlem (1948) – Bert Hallam
• Souls of Sin (1949) – Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
• Nationtime: Gary (1972) – Writer
• Trans Canada Summer (1958) – Sound
• The Fight Never Ends (1948)
• Discovering William Greaves (2006) – Self
• The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966) – Narrator
• That's Black Entertainment (1989) – Host/Narrator
• Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? (1986) – Narrator/Interviewer
• Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) – Self (archival footage)
• Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane (1970) – Producer
• Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968) – Director
• Emergency Ward (1959) – Director
• Blood and Fire (1958) – Editor
• The Dikes (1955) – Sound
• From These Roots (1974) – Director
• The Fighters (1974) – Producer
• Voice of La Raza (1971) – Writer
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) – Writer
• Smoke and Weather (1958) – Editor
• Four Religions (1960) – Cinematography
• Bush Doctor (1955) – Sound
• Islands of the Frozen Sea (1958) – Editor
• Every Nigger Is a Star (1974) – Cinematography
• Putting It Straight (1957) – Director
• Black Journal (1968) – Executive Producer
• The Man Who Built Cambodia (2017) – Self
• Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson (2007) – Self
• Where Dreams Come True (1979) – Director
• The Marijuana Affair (1975) – Director
• Space For Women (1981) – Director
• Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story (1984) – Director
• Wealth of a Nation (1964) – Editor
• Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) – Producer