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William Greaves
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Greaves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Top Filmography
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968 // MOVIE
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005 // MOVIE
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Lost Boundaries
1949 // MOVIE
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Sepia Cinderella
1947 // MOVIE
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Miracle in Harlem
1948 // MOVIE
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Discovering William Greaves
2006 // MOVIE
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Souls of Sin
1949 // MOVIE
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The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966 // MOVIE
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Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986 // MOVIE
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The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017 // MOVIE
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The Fight Never Ends
1948 // MOVIE
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That's Black Entertainment
1989 // MOVIE
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Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007 // MOVIE
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026 // MOVIE