
William Greaves
DirectingBorn 1926-10-08New York City, New York, USA
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 (14 titles)
movieThe Fight Never Ends
1948 · ★ 8.0
movieMiracle in Harlem
1948 · ★ 7.5
movieDiscovering William Greaves
2006 · ★ 7.0
movieSouls of Sin
1949 · ★ 7.0
movieThe First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966 · ★ 7.0
movieThat's Black Entertainment
1989 · ★ 7.0
movieSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968 · ★ 6.9
movieLost Boundaries
1949 · ★ 6.6
movieBlack Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986 · ★ 6.0
movieSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005 · ★ 5.9
movieSepia Cinderella
1947 · ★ 5.2
tvHollywood Black
2024 · ★ 3.0
movieThe Man Who Built Cambodia
2017 · ★ 0.0
movieOnce Upon a Time in Harlem
2026 · ★ 0.0