8.3
8.3
The Wedding
1998
Director
Charles Burnett
Directing
Born:April 13, 1944(age 82)
Birthplace:Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
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CommunityBiography
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 Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
Filmography (33 movies)
7.4
7.4
These Amazing Shadows
2011
as Self
7.1
7.1
Selma, Lord, Selma
1999
Director
6.9
6.9
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003
Director
6.7
6.7
My Brother's Wedding
1983
Producer
6.7
6.7
To Sleep with Anger
1990
Writer
6.6
6.6
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
as Self
6.5
6.5
Killer of Sheep
1978
Director
6.2
6.2
Bless Their Little Hearts
1984
Writer
6.1
6.1
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Director
6.0
6.0
The Annihilation of Fish
1999
Director
6.0
6.0
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014
6.0
6.0
Cinetracts '20
2020
Director
5.9
5.9
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
Writer
5.6
5.6
The Horse
1973
Writer
5.6
5.6
Nightjohn
1996
Director
5.5
5.5
When It Rains
1995
Director
5.2
5.2
Quiet as Kept
2007
Writer
5.2
5.2
We Blew It
2017
as Self
5.0
5.0
Several Friends
1969
Director
5.0
5.0
42 One Dream Rush
2010
Director
4.9
4.9
The Glass Shield
1994
Director
4.4
4.4
Relative Stranger
2009
Director
Olivia's Story
2000
Director
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016
as Himself
A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019
as Self
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022
as Self
For Reel?
2003
Director
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
Director
America Becoming
1991
Writer
The Final Insult
1997
Director
Finding Buck McHenry
2000
Director
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997
Director
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