William Greaves
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 8, 1926
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- August 25, 2014
Biography
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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Movies with William Greaves
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 · ★ 6.9
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ 2005 · ★ 5.9
- Lost Boundaries 1949 · ★ 6.6
- Sepia Cinderella 1947 · ★ 5.2
- Miracle in Harlem 1948 · ★ 7.5
- Souls of Sin 1949 · ★ 7.0
- The Fight Never Ends 1948 · ★ 8.0
- Discovering William Greaves 2006 · ★ 7.0
- The First World Festival of Negro Arts 1966 · ★ 7.0
- That's Black Entertainment 1989 · ★ 7.0
- Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? 1986 · ★ 6.0
- The Man Who Built Cambodia 2017
- Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson 2007
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem 2026
Movies directed by William Greaves
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 · ★ 6.9
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ 2005 · ★ 5.9
- Nationtime: Gary 1972 · ★ 8.0
- Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class 1968 · ★ 7.0
- Emergency Ward 1959 · ★ 7.0
- The First World Festival of Negro Arts 1966 · ★ 7.0
- From These Roots 1974 · ★ 8.0
- That's Black Entertainment 1989 · ★ 7.0
- Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey 2001 · ★ 9.0
- The Fighters 1974 · ★ 8.0
- Voice of La Raza 1971 · ★ 8.0
- Putting It Straight 1957 · ★ 9.0
- Four Religions 1960 · ★ 9.0
- Smoke and Weather 1958 · ★ 9.0
- Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? 1986 · ★ 6.0
- Where Dreams Come True 1979
- The Marijuana Affair 1975
- Space For Women 1981
- Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story 1984
- Wealth of a Nation 1964
- In the Company of Men 1969
- Frederick Douglass: An American Life 1985
- Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice 1989
- On Merit 1972
- Whose Standard English? 1974
- The Best of Black Journal 1988
- Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) 1976
- The Fight 1974
- The Deep North 1988
- Black Journal: 9 1969
- Black Journal: 18 1969
- Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy 1982
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem 2026
- You've Got a Number 1974