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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Male
1926-10-08
New York City, New York, USA
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The Man Who Built Cambodia
Miracle in Harlem
The Fight Never Ends
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Discovering William Greaves
Souls of Sin
Lost Boundaries
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
That's Black Entertainment
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Sepia Cinderella
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Where Dreams Come True
The Marijuana Affair
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Emergency Ward
Space For Women
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
Wealth of a Nation
From These Roots
Nationtime
The Fighters
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Voice of La Raza
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Smoke and Weather
High Arctic
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
In the Company of Men
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Whose Standard English?
On Merit
Putting It Straight
Four Religions
The Best of Black Journal
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
The Fight
The Deep North
Black Journal: 9
Black Journal: 18