
Director
William Greaves
Born 1926 · 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.
Directed

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Director · 1968
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Director · 2001
Four Religions
Director · 1960
Smoke and Weather
Director · 1958
Putting It Straight
Director · 1957

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Director · 2005

Nationtime
Director · 1972

The Fighters
Director · 1974

Voice of La Raza
Director · 1971

From These Roots
Director · 1974

The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Director · 1966

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Director · 1968

Emergency Ward
Director · 1959

That's Black Entertainment
Director · 1989

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Director · 1986

Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Director · 2026

Wealth of a Nation
Director · 1964

Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Director · 1985
Acting

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Self - Director · 1968

Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage) · 2024

Lost Boundaries
Arthur 'Art' Cooper · 1949

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Self · 2005

Miracle in Harlem
Bert Hallam · 1948

Souls of Sin
Isaiah 'Alabama' Lee · 1949

The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Narrator · 1966

That's Black Entertainment
Host/Narrator · 1989

Discovering William Greaves
Self · 2006

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Narrator/Interviewer · 1986

Sepia Cinderella
Patron · 1947

Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Self (archival footage) · 2026
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Self · 2007

The Man Who Built Cambodia
Self · 2017
Writing

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Writer · 1968
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Writer · 2001
Smoke and Weather
Writer · 1958

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
Writer · 2005

Nationtime
Writer · 1972

Voice of La Raza
Writer · 1971

The First World Festival of Negro Arts
Writer · 1966

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Writer · 1986

Wealth of a Nation
Writer · 1964

Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Writer · 1985

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Writer · 1989
High Arctic
Writer · 1959