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