Charles Burnett
Director
39
Movies
4
TV Shows
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.
Behind the Camera
Independent Lens
Director
The Blues
Escritor, Director
The Glass Shield
Director, Escritor
42 One Dream Rush
Director
Nunca Te Acuestes Enfadado
Director, Escritor
The Wedding
Director
Killer of Sheep
Director, Escritor, Editor, Productor, Dir. de Fotografía
Nightjohn
Director
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Director, Escritor
The Annihilation of Fish
Director
Finding Buck McHenry
Director
Relative Stranger
Director
Welcome Home Brother Charles
Camera Operator
Bush Mama
Dir. de Fotografía
Selma, Lord, Selma
Director
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Director, Escritor
America Becoming
Dir. de Fotografía, Director, Escritor
Guests of Hotel Astoria
Dir. de Fotografía
Crocodile Conspiracy
Dir. de Fotografía
Cinetracts '20
Director, Historia
Warming by the Devil's Fire
Director, Escritor
When It Rains
Director, Escritor
Several Friends
Director, Escritor, Editor, Productor
A Different Image
Dir. de Fotografía
The Pocketbook
Dir. de Fotografía
The Horse
Director, Productor, Escritor, Editor
Bless Their Little Hearts
Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía
My Brother's Wedding
Director, Escritor, Productor, Dir. de Fotografía
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Director
Sa-I-Gu
Camera Operator
As Actor/Actress
La Historia del Cine
Self
Hollywood Black
Self
¿¡Soy lo bastante negro para ti!?
Self
These Amazing Shadows
Self
We Blew It
Self
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Lucinda
A Walk with Charles Burnett
Self
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Self
Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
Self
Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
Himself