Charles Burnett
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday13 April 1944 (82 years old)
Place of birthVicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Known credits48
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 Burn…
Hollywood Black
2024 · Self
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Self
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022 · Self
Cinetracts '20
2020 · Director
Cinetracts '20
2020 · Story
A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019 · Self
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018 · Director
We Blew It
2017 · Self
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016 · Himself
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014 · Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Self
These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Self
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Director
Relative Stranger
2009 · Director
Quiet as Kept
2007 · Director
Quiet as Kept
2007 · Writer
Quiet as Kept
2007 · Editor
Quiet as Kept
2007 · Producer
Quiet as Kept
2007 · Director of Photography
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 · Director
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 · Writer
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003 · Director
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003 · Writer
The Blues
2003 · Writer
The Blues
2003 · Director
For Reel?
2003 · Director
For Reel?
2003 · Writer
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Lucinda
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Director
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Writer
Finding Buck McHenry
2000 · Director
Olivia's Story
2000 · Umpire
Olivia's Story
2000 · Director
Olivia's Story
2000 · Editor
The Annihilation of Fish
1999 · Director
Independent Lens
1999 · Director
Selma, Lord, Selma
1999 · Director
The Wedding
1998 · Director
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997 · Director
The Final Insult
1997 · Director of Photography
The Final Insult
1997 · Director
The Final Insult
1997 · Writer
Nightjohn
1996 · Director
When It Rains
1995 · Director
When It Rains
1995 · Writer
The Glass Shield
1994 · Director
The Glass Shield
1994 · Writer
Sa-I-Gu
1993 · Camera Operator
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