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.

• William GreavesDirector
• David GreavesDirector
• Tamar-kaliOriginal Music Composer

• Aaron DouglasSelf (archival footage)
• Richard Bruce NugentSelf (archival footage)
• Ernest CrichlowSelf (archival footage)
• Eubie BlakeSelf (archival footage)
• Leigh WhipperSelf (archival footage)
• Arna BontempsSelf (archival footage)
• William GreavesSelf (archival footage)
• James Van Der ZeeSelf (archival footage)
• Ida Mae CullenSelf (archival footage)
• Noble SissleSelf (archival footage)
• Romare BeardenSelf (archival footage)