Once Upon a Time in Harlem
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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.
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Directed by William Greaves David Greaves
- Aaron Douglas as Self (archival footage)
- Richard Bruce Nugent as Self (archival footage)
- Ernest Crichlow as Self (archival footage)
- Eubie Blake as Self (archival footage)
- Leigh Whipper as Self (archival footage)
- Arna Bontemps as Self (archival footage)
- William Greaves as Self (archival footage)
- James Van Der Zee as Self (archival footage)
- Ida Mae Cullen as Self (archival footage)
- Noble Sissle as Self (archival footage)
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