Charles Burnett
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.
27 directing credits · 11 acting credits
Directing · 27
Independent Lens
1999
The Blues
2003
The Glass Shield
1994
42 One Dream Rush
2010
The Wedding
1998
To Sleep with Anger
1990
Nightjohn
1996
Relative Stranger
2009
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Finding Buck McHenry
2000
The Annihilation of Fish
1999
Killer of Sheep
1978
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
Selma, Lord, Selma
1999
My Brother's Wedding
1983
Cinetracts '20
2020
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
Several Friends
1969
America Becoming
1991
Quiet as Kept
2007
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997
The Final Insult
1997
When It Rains
1995
The Horse
1973
For Reel?
2003
Olivia's Story
2000
Acting · 11
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Hollywood Black
2024
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
These Amazing Shadows
2011
We Blew It
2017
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014
A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022
Olivia's Story
2000