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Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A film over 50 years in the making.

0.0/ 1020261h 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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Behind the frames

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The cast

Faces behind the story

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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