Movie

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

2026 1h 40m Released

Documentary

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.

Cast

A Aaron Douglas Self (archival footage) R Richard Bruce Nugent Self (archival footage) E Ernest Crichlow Self (archival footage) Eubie Blake Self (archival footage) Leigh Whipper Self (archival footage) A Arna Bontemps Self (archival footage)