A film over 50 years in the making.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Eubie Blake
Self (archival footage)
Leigh Whipper
Self (archival footage)
William Greaves
Self (archival footage)
Noble Sissle
Self (archival footage)
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