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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.
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The epic story of the actors, writers, directors, and producers who fought for their place on the page, behind...
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he...
A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes ou...
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pai...
A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pairs of actors in a sce...
This documentary presents clips from black films from 1929 through 1957.
A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault,...
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A struggling songwriter abandons his girlfriend for a flashy woman after landing a hit.
The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and...
"This documentary film covers a 24-day arts festival in Dakar, Senegal that highlighted Black contributions to...
Unsuccessful gambler 'Dollar Bill' Burton lives in a crummy New York basement room with old friend Bob and a ne...
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the worl...
An architect whose iconic buildings defined a newly independent Cambodia struggles to come to terms with the re...
Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a...