William Greaves
Director · 48 credits · 5 in highly-rated films
Best known for Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Frequent collaborators: Ruby Dee
Directed movies (33 total, ranked by score)
1Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968 · ★ 6.9 (62 votes)
Documentary
2Nationtime: Gary
1972 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)
Documentary
3Once Upon a Time in Harlem
2026
Documentary
4The Fighters
1974
Documentary
5Voice of La Raza
1971
Documentary
6Emergency Ward
1959
Documentary
7Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½
2005 · ★ 5.9 (15 votes)
Documentary
8That's Black Entertainment
1989
Documentary
- 9
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
2001 · ★ 9.0 (1 votes)
Documentary
10From These Roots
1974
Documentary
11Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
1968
Documentary
12Wealth of a Nation
1964
Documentary
13Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
1989
Documentary, History
14Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
1986 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)
Documentary
15The First World Festival of Negro Arts
1966 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)
Documentary
16Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976
Documentary
- 17
Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
1984
Documentary
18The Marijuana Affair
1975
Action, Crime, Thriller
19The Fight
1974
Documentary
- 20
Where Dreams Come True
1979
Documentary
- 21
Whose Standard English?
1974
- 22
On Merit
1972
- 23
Putting It Straight
1957
Documentary
- 24
Four Religions
1960
Documentary
- 25
The Best of Black Journal
1988
26Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985
History, Drama
- 27
Smoke and Weather
1958
Documentary
- 28
Space For Women
1981
Documentary
- 29
Black Journal: 18
1969
Documentary
- 30
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
1982
Documentary
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.