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Charles Burnett

Charles Burnett

Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.

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Known For

  • Killer of Sheep
  • Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
  • The Glass Shield
  • My Brother's Wedding
  • To Sleep with Anger
  • Warming by the Devil's Fire
  • When It Rains
  • Several Friends
  • The Horse
  • The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
  • Nightjohn
  • Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
  • Selma, Lord, Selma
  • The Wedding
  • Quiet as Kept
  • The Annihilation of Fish
  • Relative Stranger
  • Documenta X - Die Filme
  • Olivia's Story
  • 42 One Dream Rush
  • For Reel?
  • America Becoming
  • The Final Insult
  • Cinetracts '20
  • Finding Buck McHenry
  • 42 Second Dream