Director
Charles Burnett
82 years · Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA · 37 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 37
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Self
On Netflix
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022 · Self
Cinetracts '20
2020 · Director
A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019 · Self
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018 · Director
On OVID
We Blew It
2017 · Self
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016 · Himself
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014 · Self
These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Self
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Director
Relative Stranger
2009 · Director
On Xumo Play
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 · Director, Writer
Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003 · Director, Writer
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Lucinda, Director
On Kanopy
Finding Buck McHenry
2000 · Director
On Plex
The Annihilation of Fish
1999 · Director
On Kanopy
Selma, Lord, Selma
1999 · Director
The Wedding
1998 · Director
The Final Insult
1997 · Cinematography, Director
On Kanopy
Nightjohn
1996 · Director
When It Rains
1995 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
The Glass Shield
1994 · Director, Writer
On Hoopla
America Becoming
1991 · Cinematography, Director
To Sleep with Anger
1990 · Director, Writer
On Tubi TV