The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
star 7.7
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the hist...
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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.
Filmography
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Hollywood Black
2024
star 9.0
The epic story of the actors, writers, directors, and producers who fought for their place on the page, behind...
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
star 6.2
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new supe...
These Amazing Shadows
2011
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Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that r...
We Blew It
2017
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How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's a...
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
star 6.3
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owner...
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014
star 6.0
What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American film group TNE...
A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019
Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Fi...
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016
Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and...
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022
Olivia's Story
2000
star 7.0
A Little League baseball game becomes the unlikely context for this lyrical drama about memory and loss, told f...