
William Greaves
Known for: Directing
Born: October 8, 1926
Died: August 25, 2014
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,…
Known for

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005

Discovering William Greaves
2006

Souls of Sin
1949

The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966

That's Black Entertainment
1989
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986

The Man Who Built Cambodia
2017

The Fight Never Ends
1948

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968

Miracle in Harlem
1948

Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026

Lost Boundaries
1949

Hollywood Black
2024

Sepia Cinderella
1947