Charles Burnett
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA — Apr 13 1944
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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 m…
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Charles Burnett's Credits
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Independent Lens
Directing
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
The Blues
Writing
To Sleep with Anger
Directing
These Amazing Shadows
Self
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self
The Glass Shield
Directing
The Wedding
Directing
42 One Dream Rush
Directing
The Annihilation of Fish
Directing
We Blew It
Self
Relative Stranger
Directing
Nightjohn
Directing
Selma, Lord, Selma
Directing
Killer of Sheep
Directing
Finding Buck McHenry
Directing
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Directing
Illusions
Editing
My Brother's Wedding
Directing
Welcome Home Brother Charles
Camera
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Lucinda
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Directing
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
Himself
When It Rains
Directing
Quiet as Kept
Directing
The Horse
Directing
A Different Image
Camera
Several Friends
Writing
A Walk with Charles Burnett
Self
Bush Mama
Camera
The Pocketbook
Camera
Warming by the Devil's Fire
Directing
Bless Their Little Hearts
Writing
Cinetracts '20
Directing
America Becoming
Camera
The Final Insult
Camera
Documenta X - Die Filme
Directing
From Rags to Reality
Camera
Sa-I-Gu
Camera
69 Pickup
Camera
Crocodile Conspiracy
Camera
Olivia's Story
Umpire
For Reel?
Writing
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
Self
Your Children Come Back to You
Editing