BigList
Login / Sign up
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026)

Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026)

Documentary

A film over 50 years in the making.

Release Date: 2026, October 16
Directors: David Greaves, William Greaves
Countries: United States of America
Production: William Greaves Productions
Cast: Aaron Douglas, Eubie Blake, Leigh Whipper, Noble Sissle, Richard Bruce Nugent, Ernest Crichlow, Arna Bontemps, James Van Der Zee, Ida Mae Cullen, Romare Bearden

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

restoration reunion collaboration harlem, new york city community black community cocktail party harlem harlem renaissance duke ellington