William Greaves
Director
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.
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As Director
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966
Nationtime
1972
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986
Where Dreams Come True
1979
The Marijuana Affair
1975
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
Emergency Ward
1959
Space For Women
1981
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
1984
From These Roots
1974Filmography
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
as Self - Director 1968
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
as Self 2005
Lost Boundaries
as Arthur 'Art' Cooper 1949
Sepia Cinderella
as Patron 1947
Miracle in Harlem
as Bert Hallam 1948
Discovering William Greaves
as Self 2006
Souls of Sin
as Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee 1949
The First World Festival of Negro Arts
as Narrator 1966
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
as Narrator/Interviewer 1986
The Man Who Built Cambodia
as Self 2017
The Fight Never Ends
1948
That's Black Entertainment
as Host/Narrator 1989