William Greaves
- Directing
- October 8, 1926 · New York City, New York, USA
- August 25, 2014
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
Filmography
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem · Self, Director
- Hollywood Black · Self
- The Man Who Built Cambodia · Self
- Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson · Self
- Discovering William Greaves · Self
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ · Self, Director
- Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey · Writer, Editing
- Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice · Producer, Director
- That's Black Entertainment · Host/Narrator, Director
- The Deep North · Director, Producer
- The Best of Black Journal · Director
- Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? · Narrator/Interviewer, Camera Operator
- Frederick Douglass: An American Life · Producer, Editing
- Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story · Director, Producer
- Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy · Writer, Cinematography
- Space For Women · Director, Producer
- Bustin' Loose · Executive producer
- Where Dreams Come True · Director
- Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) · Producer, Cinematography
- The Marijuana Affair · Director, Producer
- From These Roots · Director
- The Fighters · Editing, Producer
- Every Nigger Is a Star · Cinematography
- Whose Standard English? · Director
- The Fight · Director
- You've Got a Number · Director
- Nationtime: Gary · Producer, Editing
- On Merit · Director
- Voice of La Raza · Writer, Cinematography
- Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane · Producer
- Black Journal: 23; New-Ark · Producer
- Black Journal: 18 · Director
- Black Journal: 9 · Director
- In the Company of Men · Director
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One · Self, Director
- Black Journal · Executive producer
- Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class · Director, Editing
- The First World Festival of Negro Arts · Narrator, Director
- Wealth of a Nation · Editing, Director
- Four Religions · Editing, Cinematography
- Emergency Ward · Director, Editing
- High Arctic · Writer, Editing
- Blood and Fire · Editing
- Smoke and Weather · Editing, Producer
- Trans Canada Summer · Sound, Editing
- Islands of the Frozen Sea · Editing
- Profile of a Problem Drinker · Editing
- Putting It Straight · Director
- Bush Doctor · Sound
- The Dikes · Sound
- Souls of Sin · Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
- Lost Boundaries · Arthur 'Art' Cooper
- Miracle in Harlem · Bert Hallam
- The Fight Never Ends
- Sepia Cinderella · Patron