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Charles Burnett
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…
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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.
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self
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2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Movie Self
- 2022
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2020
Cinetracts '20
Movie Director
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2019
A Walk with Charles Burnett
Movie Self
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2018
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Movie Director
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2017
We Blew It
Movie Self
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2016
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
Movie Himself
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2014
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Movie Self
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2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
TV show Self
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2011
These Amazing Shadows
Movie Self
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2010
42 One Dream Rush
Movie Director
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2009
Relative Stranger
Movie Director
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2007
Quiet as Kept
Movie Director
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2007
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Movie Director
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2003
Warming by the Devil's Fire
Movie Director
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2003
The Blues
TV show Writer
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2003
For Reel?
Movie Writer
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2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Movie Lucinda
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2000
Finding Buck McHenry
Movie Director
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2000
Olivia's Story
Movie Umpire
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1999
The Annihilation of Fish
Movie Director
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1999
Independent Lens
TV show Director
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1999
Selma, Lord, Selma
Movie Director
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1998
The Wedding
Movie Director
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1997
Documenta X - Die Filme
Movie Director
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1997
The Final Insult
Movie Director of Photography
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1996
Nightjohn
Movie Director
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1995
When It Rains
Movie Director
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1994
The Glass Shield
Movie Director
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1993
Sa-I-Gu
Movie Camera Operator
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1991
America Becoming
Movie Director of Photography
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1990
To Sleep with Anger
Movie Director
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1989
Guests of Hotel Astoria
Movie Director of Photography
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1989
From Rags to Reality
Movie Director of Photography
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1986
Crocodile Conspiracy
Movie Director of Photography
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1985
My Brother's Wedding
Movie Director
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1984
Bless Their Little Hearts
Movie Writer
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1982
Illusions
Movie Editor
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1982
A Different Image
Movie Director of Photography
