Charles Burnett
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.
These Amazing Shadows
(Self)
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
(Self)
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
(Self)
Olivia's Story
(Umpire)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
(Lucinda)
We Blew It
(Self)
A Walk with Charles Burnett
(Self)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
(Self)
Killer of Sheep
(Director)
Your Children Come Back to You
(Editor)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
(Director)
The Glass Shield
(Director)
My Brother's Wedding
(Director)
To Sleep with Anger
(Director)
Finding Buck McHenry
(Director)
Warming by the Devil's Fire
(Director)
When It Rains
(Director)
Several Friends
(Writer)
Several Friends
(Director)
The Horse
(Director)
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
(Director)
Nightjohn
(Director)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
(Director)
Selma, Lord, Selma
(Director)
To Sleep with Anger
(Writer)
Bless Their Little Hearts
(Writer)
The Wedding
(Director)
Several Friends
(Producer)
Several Friends
(Editor)
The Horse
(Editor)
The Horse
(Producer)
The Horse
(Writer)
Quiet as Kept
(Director)
Quiet as Kept
(Editor)
Quiet as Kept
(Producer)
Quiet as Kept
(Writer)
The Annihilation of Fish
(Director)
From Rags to Reality
(Director of Photography)
Relative Stranger
(Director)
Documenta X - Die Filme
(Director)
Bless Their Little Hearts
(Director of Photography)
Olivia's Story
(Editor)
Olivia's Story
(Director)
The Glass Shield
(Writer)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
(Writer)
Illusions
(Editor)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
(Writer)
Bush Mama
(Director of Photography)
Quiet as Kept
(Director of Photography)
The Pocketbook
(Director of Photography)
A Different Image
(Director of Photography)
69 Pickup
(Director of Photography)
The Final Insult
(Director of Photography)
America Becoming
(Director of Photography)
42 One Dream Rush
(Director)
Killer of Sheep
(Writer)
Killer of Sheep
(Producer)
Killer of Sheep
(Editor)
For Reel?
(Writer)
For Reel?
(Director)
Warming by the Devil's Fire
(Writer)
America Becoming
(Writer)
America Becoming
(Director)
My Brother's Wedding
(Producer)
My Brother's Wedding
(Writer)
The Final Insult
(Director)
My Brother's Wedding
(Director of Photography)
Sa-I-Gu
(Camera Operator)
Killer of Sheep
(Director of Photography)
The Final Insult
(Writer)
When It Rains
(Writer)
Cinetracts '20
(Director)
Your Children Come Back to You
(Director of Photography)
Crocodile Conspiracy
(Director of Photography)
Independent Lens
(Director)
The Blues
(Writer)
The Blues
(Director)