Charles Burnett
Directing
Born April 13, 1944 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
Filmography
Hollywood Black
Self
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
Self
Cinetracts '20
A Walk with Charles Burnett
Self
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
We Blew It
Self
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
Himself
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
These Amazing Shadows
Self
42 One Dream Rush
Relative Stranger
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Warming by the Devil's Fire
The Blues
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Lucinda
Finding Buck McHenry
The Annihilation of Fish
Independent Lens
Selma, Lord, Selma
The Wedding
The Final Insult
Nightjohn
When It Rains
The Glass Shield
Sa-I-Gu
America Becoming
To Sleep with Anger
Guests of Hotel Astoria
From Rags to Reality
Crocodile Conspiracy
Bless Their Little Hearts
My Brother's Wedding
Illusions
A Different Image
The Pocketbook
Bush Mama
Your Children Come Back to You
Killer of Sheep
Welcome Home Brother Charles
The Horse
Several Friends