William Greaves
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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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Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026)
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Nationtime: Gary (1972)
Director
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968)
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The Fight (1974)
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
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The Fighters (1974)
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On Merit (1972)
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Where Dreams Come True (1979)
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Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001)
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ (2005)
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Space For Women (1981)
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Voice of La Raza (1971)
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Smoke and Weather (1958)
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Emergency Ward (1959)
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Frederick Douglass: An American Life (1985)
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Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989)
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Wealth of a Nation (1964)
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That's Black Entertainment (1989)
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The Marijuana Affair (1975)
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Four Religions (1960)
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Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story (1984)
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Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? (1986)
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From These Roots (1974)
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The Deep North (1988)
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Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) (1976)
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The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966)
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Black Journal: 9 (1969)
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Putting It Straight (1957)
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Black Journal: 18 (1969)
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The Best of Black Journal (1988)
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Whose Standard English? (1974)
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Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy (1982)
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In the Company of Men (1969)
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