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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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- Hollywood Black (2024) as Self (archive footage)
- Bustin' Loose (1981) Executive Producer
- The Fighters (1974) Editor
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) Director
- Nationtime (1972) Producer
- Lost Boundaries (1949) as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
- Voice of La Raza (1971) Writer
- Sepia Cinderella (1947) as Patron
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) Director
- Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson (2007) as Self
- On Merit (1972) Director
- Black Journal: 23; New-Ark (1970) Producer
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ (2005) Director
- Frederick Douglass: An American Life (1985) Producer
- Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) Writer
- Wealth of a Nation (1964) Editor
- The Fight Never Ends (1948) Cast
- Black Journal: 26; Alice Coltrane (1970) Producer
- The Man Who Built Cambodia (2017) as Self
- Space For Women (1981) Director
- Miracle in Harlem (1948) as Bert Hallam
- Black Journal (1968) Executive Producer
- Discovering William Greaves (2006) as Self
- Where Dreams Come True (1979) Director
- Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) Producer
- Emergency Ward (1959) Director
- Every Nigger Is a Star (1974) Cinematography
- Blood and Fire (1958) Editor
- The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966) Director
- The Marijuana Affair (1975) Director
- The Fight (1974) Director
- That's Black Entertainment (1989) Director
- Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968) Director
- Souls of Sin (1949) as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee
- The Dikes (1955) Sound
- Islands of the Frozen Sea (1958) Editor
- Black Journal: 18 (1969) Director
- Four Religions (1960) Editor
- Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy (1982) Writer
- Bush Doctor (1955) Sound
- Smoke and Weather (1958) Editor
- Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) (1976) Producer
- From These Roots (1974) Director
- Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? (1986) Camera Operator
- In the Company of Men (1969) Director
- Profile of a Problem Drinker (1957) Editor
- Trans Canada Summer (1958) Sound
- Putting It Straight (1957) Director
- High Arctic (1959) Writer
- The Deep North (1988) Director
- Whose Standard English? (1974) Director
- The Best of Black Journal (1988) Director
- Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story (1984) Director
- Black Journal: 9 (1969) Director
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