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Charles Burnett

Charles Burnett

Director · Born 1944-04-13 · Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

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Biography

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.

Directed

  1. Killer of Sheep (1978) — Director
  2. To Sleep with Anger (1990) — Director
  3. The Glass Shield (1994) — Director
  4. When It Rains (1995) — Director
  5. The Blues (2003) — Director
  6. My Brother's Wedding (1983) — Director
  7. Independent Lens (1999) — Director
  8. The Annihilation of Fish (1999) — Director
  9. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) — Director
  10. Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) — Director
  11. Several Friends (1969) — Director
  12. The Horse (1973) — Director
  13. Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007) — Director
  14. Nightjohn (1996) — Director
  15. Relative Stranger (2009) — Director
  16. Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003) — Director
  17. Quiet as Kept (2007) — Director
  18. The Wedding (1998) — Director
  19. Documenta X - Die Filme (1997) — Director
  20. Olivia's Story (2000) — Director
  21. 42 One Dream Rush (2010) — Director
  22. For Reel? (2003) — Director
  23. America Becoming (1991) — Director
  24. Cinetracts '20 (2020) — Director
  25. Finding Buck McHenry (2000) — Director
  26. The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (2018) — Director
  27. The Final Insult (1997) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. These Amazing Shadows (2011) — Self
  2. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) — Self
  3. Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) — Self
  4. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) — Lucinda
  5. We Blew It (2017) — Self
  6. Hollywood Black (2024) — Self
  7. Dreams Are Colder Than Death (2014) — Self
  8. Olivia's Story (2000) — Umpire
  9. Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts (2022) — Self
  10. A Walk with Charles Burnett (2019) — Self
  11. Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA (2016) — Himself