Registry in 2015. In 2020, Firelight Media established a William Greaves Fund to support mid-career nonfiction filmmakers of color. Filmography Putting It Straight (1957) Smoke and Weather (1958) Emergency Ward (1959) Four Religions (1960) Wealth of a Nation (1964) The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966) Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968) In the Company of Men (1969) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) The Voice of La Raza (1972) Struggle for Los Trabajos (1972) On Merit (1972); Nationtime, Gary (1973) From These Roots (1974) The Fighters (1974) Power Versus the People (1974) EEOC Story (1974) Whose Standard English? (1974) Ali, the Fighter (1975) The Marijuana Affair (1975) Just Doin' It: A Tale of Two Barbershops (1976) Opportunities in Criminal Justice (1978) Where Dreams Come True (1979) To Free Their Minds (1980) Space for Women (1981) Booker T. Washington, the Life and the Legacy (1982) A Plan for All Seasons (1983) Frederick Douglass: An American Life (1985) Beyond the Forest (1985) Fighter for Freedom (1985) Black Power in America: Myth or Reality? (1988) The Best of Black Journal (1988) Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) That's Black Entertainment (1990) The Deep North (1990) Resurrections: Paul Robeson (1990) A Tribute to Jackie Robinson (1990) Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) Ralph Bunche: The Odyssey Continues... (2003) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 ½ (2005) References Further reading Boyd, Todd. African Americans and Popular Culture. Vols 1–3. Westport (Conn.): Praeger, 2008. Print. Dixon, Wheeler W. The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema. Albany: State University of New York, 1997. Print. MacDonald, Scott and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart. William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Print. ISBN 9780231199599 Martin, Michael T. Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality''. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. Print. External links williamgreaves.com William Greaves at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection William Greaves Collection at Indiana University Bloomington Black Film Center/Archive Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (TCM Movie Morlocks) David Pitts, "William Greaves, Pioneering African-American Filmmaker", IIP Digital, February 26, 2002. 1926 births 2014 deaths African-American film directors African-American screenwriters Screenwriters from New York (state) American male screenwriters American documentary film directors American documentary film producers Canadian documentary filmmakers Cinema pioneers National Film Board of Canada people Stuyvesant High School alumni Film directors from New York City