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William Greaves

William Greaves

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.

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Known For

  • Where Dreams Come True
  • The Marijuana Affair
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
  • Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
  • Emergency Ward
  • Space For Women
  • Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
  • The First World Festival of Negro Arts
  • Wealth of a Nation
  • From These Roots
  • The Fighters
  • That's Black Entertainment
  • Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
  • Ali the Man: Ali the Fighter
  • Voice of La Raza
  • In the Company of Men
  • Nationtime
  • Frederick Douglass: An American Life
  • Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
  • Whose Standard English?
  • On Merit
  • Putting It Straight
  • Smoke and Weather
  • Four Religions
  • The Best of Black Journal
  • Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
  • Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
  • The Fight