William Greaves Movies

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation...

A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes out, the more prejudiced neighbors...

A movie about making movies about making movies. In 1968, William Greaves shot several pairs of actors in a scene in which a woman confronts her...

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair...

This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.

In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's "Black Journal" television program—legendary jazz...

A look at the destruction that follows the breaking of long-neglected dikes and the measures being taken to prevent future problems.

This short documentary offers a look at the life forms on the Queen Elizabeth Islands within the Arctic Circle. Even in this frigid zone of icebergs...

The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and...

Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just for the boys. The film interviews women...

Examines the history and purpose of the "merit system" used by the U.S. Civil Service in hiring and promoting Federal Government workers. Shows how...

This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America

An architect whose iconic buildings defined a newly independent Cambodia struggles to come to terms with the reckless development that threatens his...

Produced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, this film traces the ongoing struggle for equality by the Spanish-speaking residents of the...

This documentary presents clips from black films from 1929 through 1957.

Unsuccessful gambler 'Dollar Bill' Burton lives in a crummy New York basement room with old friend Bob and a new roommate, friendly blues singer...

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist,...

Behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.