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.

William Greaves

Directing Born October 8, 1926 – Died August 25, 2014 New York City, New York, USA

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.

Known For

Hollywood Black

Self (archive footage)

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Self (archival footage)

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Self - Director

Sepia Cinderella

Patron

Lost Boundaries

Arthur 'Art' Cooper

The Man Who Built Cambodia

Self

The Fight Never Ends

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½

Self

Miracle in Harlem

Bert Hallam

That's Black Entertainment

Host/Narrator

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

Narrator/Interviewer