Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A film over 50 years in the making.

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.

CastCrewDetailsGenres

AAaron DouglasSelf (archival footage)

RRichard Bruce NugentSelf (archival footage)

EErnest CrichlowSelf (archival footage)

Eubie BlakeSelf (archival footage)

Leigh WhipperSelf (archival footage)

AArna BontempsSelf (archival footage)

William GreavesSelf (archival footage)

JJames Van Der ZeeSelf (archival footage)

IIda Mae CullenSelf (archival footage)

Noble SissleSelf (archival footage)

RRomare BeardenSelf (archival footage)

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