William Greaves
Known for: Director
Born: 8 October 1926, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 25 August 2014
Credits: 8 titles
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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Acting
That's Black Entertainment
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Souls of Sin
Lost Boundaries
Miracle in Harlem
The Fight Never Ends
Sepia Cinderella
Directed / Created
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
That's Black Entertainment
The Deep North
The Best of Black Journal
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
Space For Women
Where Dreams Come True
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
The Marijuana Affair
From These Roots
The Fighters
You've Got a Number
The Fight
Whose Standard English?
Nationtime: Gary
On Merit
Voice of La Raza
Black Journal: 18
Black Journal: 9
In the Company of Men
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Wealth of a Nation