Charles Burnett
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Charles Burnett

Born 13 April 1944 · Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
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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.

Known for

Killer of Sheep
To Sleep with Anger
The Glass Shield
When It Rains
The Blues
My Brother's Wedding
Illusions
Bless Their Little Hearts
The Annihilation of Fish
Independent Lens
Bush Mama
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Cinetracts '20
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
42 One Dream Rush
Relative Stranger
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Warming by the Devil's Fire
Finding Buck McHenry
Selma, Lord, Selma
The Annihilation of Fish
The Wedding
The Final Insult
Nightjohn
When It Rains
The Glass Shield
America Becoming
To Sleep with Anger
From Rags to Reality
Guests of Hotel Astoria
Crocodile Conspiracy
My Brother's Wedding
Bless Their Little Hearts
Illusions
A Different Image
The Pocketbook
Your Children Come Back to You
Bush Mama
Killer of Sheep
The Horse
Several Friends
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