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.
33 directing credits · 15 acting credits
Directing · 33
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
Nationtime
1972
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985
The Fighters
1974
Voice of La Raza
1971
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
2001
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
That's Black Entertainment
1989
The Fight
1974
Space For Women
1981
Where Dreams Come True
1979
Wealth of a Nation
1964
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989
The Marijuana Affair
1975
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
The Best of Black Journal
1988
Emergency Ward
1959
Four Religions
1960
Black Journal: 18
1969
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976
On Merit
1972
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
1982
In the Company of Men
1969
Putting It Straight
1957
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
1984
Smoke and Weather
1958
Whose Standard English?
1974
The Deep North
1988
From These Roots
1974
Black Journal: 9
1969
Acting · 15
Hollywood Black
2024
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
Lost Boundaries
1949
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
That's Black Entertainment
1989
Discovering William Greaves
2006
Miracle in Harlem
1948
Sepia Cinderella
1947
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
Souls of Sin
1949
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017
The Fight Never Ends
1948