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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William Greaves was an influential American documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of African-American cinema, known for his work on Black Journal and various independent projects.
He is best known for directing the groundbreaking meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and producing over two hundred documentary films.
His films frequently examined African-American history, civil rights, and cultural figures like Ralph Bunche. Explore William Greaves's filmography on Mood.
