Hollywood Black
2024
star 9.0
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William Greaves
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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Filmography
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he...
Lost Boundaries
1949
star 6.6
A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes ou...
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968
star 6.9
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pai...
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
star 6.3
A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pairs of actors in a sce...
That's Black Entertainment
1989
star 7.0
This documentary presents clips from black films from 1929 through 1957.
Discovering William Greaves
2006
star 7.0
A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault,...
Miracle in Harlem
1948
star 7.5
A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead,...
Sepia Cinderella
1947
star 5.2
A struggling songwriter abandons his girlfriend for a flashy woman after landing a hit.
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
star 6.0
The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and...
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
star 7.0
"This documentary film covers a 24-day arts festival in Dakar, Senegal that highlighted Black contributions to...
Souls of Sin
1949
star 7.0
Unsuccessful gambler 'Dollar Bill' Burton lives in a crummy New York basement room with old friend Bob and a ne...
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the worl...
The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017
An architect whose iconic buildings defined a newly independent Cambodia struggles to come to terms with the re...
The Fight Never Ends
1948
star 8.0
Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a...