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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.
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A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new supe...
Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that r...
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's a...
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owner...
What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American film group TNE...
Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Fi...
Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and...
A Little League baseball game becomes the unlikely context for this lyrical drama about memory and loss, told f...