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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem

2026
Directed byWilliam Greaves
1h 40m

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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Aaron DouglasSelf (archival footage)Richard Bruce NugentSelf (archival footage)Ernest Crichlow
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Self (archival footage)
Eubie BlakeSelf (archival footage)
Leigh WhipperSelf (archival footage)
Arna BontempsSelf (archival footage)
William GreavesSelf (archival footage)
James Van Der ZeeSelf (archival footage)
Ida Mae CullenSelf (archival footage)
Noble SissleSelf (archival footage)
DETAILS
GENRES
Documentary
STATUSReleased
RATING
NR

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