Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026)
"A film over 50 years in the making."
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🎬 97%
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Cast
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)
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. Wikipedia ↗
