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Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A film over 50 years in the making.

0.020261h 40mPG-13
Documentary

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.

Directed by William Greaves

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Cast

Aaron Douglas

Self (archival footage)

Richard Bruce Nugent

Self (archival footage)

Ernest Crichlow

Self (archival footage)

Eubie Blake

Eubie Blake

Self (archival footage)

Leigh Whipper

Leigh Whipper

Self (archival footage)

Arna Bontemps

Self (archival footage)

William Greaves

William Greaves

Self (archival footage)

James Van Der Zee

Self (archival footage)

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