William Greaves
Directing
Born: 1926-10-08 in New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Self (archival footage)
Sepia Cinderella
Patron
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Self
The Fight Never Ends
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Self - Director
Lost Boundaries
Arthur 'Art' Cooper
Miracle in Harlem
Bert Hallam
The Man Who Built Cambodia
Self
Discovering William Greaves
Self
That's Black Entertainment
Host/Narrator
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Narrator/Interviewer
Souls of Sin
Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Narrator