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...

Few remember the name, much less the historical achievements, of Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche. Yet, this African American mediator and United Nations...

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

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...

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

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

This short film is a telling portrait of the discourse about and treatment of alcohol addiction in the middle of the 20th century. In a fictional...

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

The Salvation Army in action. Band rehearsals, personal reminiscences of an Army officer, and an unrehearsed "coming to Christ" in the Army Citadel...

A man returns to his home of Jamaica from journey. Along the way, he meets up with famous reggae bands of the time.

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

Directed by African American William Greaves and narrated by actor Ricardo Montalban, Where Dreams Come True is a 1979 NASA film highlighting the...

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

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

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

An American detective investigates the drug trade's influence on violence in Jamaica and corruption among government officials and high-ranking...

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...

A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark...

Ali the Fighter was made in 1975, when the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight was still fresh in everyone's minds. Filmmaker William Greaves frames...