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Home/People/William Greaves
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Born
Oct 8, 1926Died: Aug 25, 2014
Lived 87 years
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

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Movies
0
TV Shows
33
Directed
IMDb Profile

William Greaves

Directing

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.
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2017
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Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

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2006
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2005
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That's Black Entertainment

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1989
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Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

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1986
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

as Self - Director
1968
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The First World Festival of Negro Arts

as Narrator
1966
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Souls of Sin

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1949
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as Arthur 'Art' Cooper
1949
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as Bert Hallam
1948
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The Fight Never Ends

Cast
1948
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Sepia Cinderella

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1947