Directed credits
11
Active
Regular directing credits.
Director
William Greaves
Directing
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Directed movies: 11Directed series: 0All crew credits: 26
TMDB ID: 131468
IMDb ID: nm0337348
Known for: Directing
Born: October 8, 1926
Died: August 25, 2014
Age: 87
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1947 - 2026
Years active: 80
Average TMDB rating: 6.55
Wikidata: Q8010139
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Director (11)Producer (5)Editor (4)Sound (2)Camera Operator (1)Cinematography (1)Executive Producer (1)Writer (1)
Biography
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.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by William Greaves.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Director
2026 Movie
6.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Director
2005 Movie
That's Black Entertainment
Director
1989 Movie
The Marijuana Affair
Director
1975 Movie
From These Roots
Director
1974 Movie
The Fight
Director
1974 Movie
In the Company of Men
Director
1969 Movie
7.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Director
1968 Movie
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Director
1968 Movie
7.0
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Director
1966 Movie
Emergency Ward
Director
1959 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with William Greaves.
8.0
Nationtime
Producer
1972 Movie
4.8
Sepia Cinderella
as Patron
1947 Movie
The Fight
Director
1974 Movie
6.1
Bustin' Loose
Executive Producer
1981 Movie
7.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Director
1968 Movie
The Dikes
Sound
1955 Movie
6.4
Lost Boundaries
as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
1949 Movie
7.0
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Director
1966 Movie
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Producer
1985 Movie
The Fighters
Editor
1974 Movie
6.0
Souls of Sin
as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
1949 Movie
6.2
Miracle in Harlem
as Bert Hallam
1948 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for William Greaves.
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Producer
1989 Movie
6.0
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Camera Operator
1986 Movie
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Producer
1985 Movie
6.1
Bustin' Loose
Executive Producer
1981 Movie
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
Producer
1976 Movie
The Fighters
Editor
1974 Movie
1.0
Every Nigger Is a Star
Cinematography
1974 Movie
8.0
Nationtime
Producer
1972 Movie
Voice of La Raza
Writer
1971 Movie
5.0
Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane
Producer
1970 Movie
Wealth of a Nation
Editor
1964 Movie
Blood and Fire
Editor
1958 Movie
10.0
Trans Canada Summer
Sound
1958 Movie
Islands of the Frozen Sea
Editor
1958 Movie
The Dikes
Sound
1955 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for William Greaves.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
as Self (archival footage)
2026 Movie
The Man Who Built Cambodia
as Self
2017 Movie
7.0
Discovering William Greaves
as Self
2006 Movie
6.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
as Self
2005 Movie
That's Black Entertainment
as Host/Narrator
1989 Movie
6.0
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
as Narrator/Interviewer
1986 Movie
7.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
as Self - Director
1968 Movie
7.0
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
as Narrator
1966 Movie
6.0
Souls of Sin
as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
1949 Movie
6.4
Lost Boundaries
as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
1949 Movie
6.2
Miracle in Harlem
as Bert Hallam
1948 Movie
The Fight Never Ends
1948 Movie