William Greaves
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican documentary filmmaker (1926-2014)
William Garfield Greaves was an American filmmaker and actor. Trained at the Actors Studio, he worked as a stage and film actor but became disillusioned with the roles available to Black performers, and transitioned into a career as a pioneering documentarian at the highest of the civil rights movement.
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Bustin' Loose
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Lost Boundaries
Sepia Cinderella
Nationtime
Souls of Sin
Miracle in Harlem
The Fighters
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Voice of La Raza
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
That's Black Entertainment
Emergency Ward
Discovering William Greaves
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
The Fight Never Ends
From These Roots
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
The Fight
Wealth of a Nation
The Marijuana Affair
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
The Man Who Built Cambodia
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)125 credits on file
Television 2
Hollywood BlackAwards 2
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William Garfield Greaves was an American filmmaker and actor. Trained at the Actors Studio, he worked as a stage and film actor but became disillusioned with the roles available to Black performers, and transitioned into a career as a pioneering documentarian at the highest of the civil rights movement. He produced more than 200 documentaries, and wrote and directed more than half of these. He garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations.
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