Charles Burnett Filmography
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
- 88 minutes (1 hour 28 minutes)
- Documentary
- 7.6/10 (1753 votes)
"From the timeless charm of Casablanca to the daring humor of Blazing Saddles and the...
Independent Lens (1999)
- 23 seasons, 60 minutes (1 hour)
- Documentary
- 8.2/10 (628 votes)
Different celebrity host present a new independent documentary.
Killer of Sheep (1978)
- 80 minutes (1 hour 20 minutes)
- Drama
- 7.2/10 (7492 votes)
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui...
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
- 101 minutes (1 hour 41 minutes)
- Drama
- 7.2/10 (2898 votes)
Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named...
Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
- 135 minutes (2 hours 15 minutes)
- Documentary
- 7.3/10 (1485 votes)
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new...
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
- 900 minutes (15 hours)
- Documentary
- 8.4/10 (4807 votes)
Film critic and historian Mark Cousins uses film clips, interviews with filmmakers, and illustrative footage...
Illusions (1982)
- 34 minutes
- Drama
- 6.8/10 (517 votes)
An African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s...
My Brother's Wedding (1983)
- 81 minutes (1 hour 21 minutes)
- Drama
- 7.1/10 (1068 votes)
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and...
We Blew It (2017)
- 137 minutes (2 hours 17 minutes)
- Documentary
- 5.7/10 (208 votes)
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams...
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
- 58 minutes
- Documentary
- 6.8/10 (182 votes)
The story and legacy of the enigmatic leader of the notorious 1831 homicidal slave revolt...
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
- 85 minutes (1 hour 25 minutes)
- Drama
- 7.3/10 (508 votes)
A dramatic look into the life of a family in Watts.
Several Friends (1969)
- 22 minutes
- Drama
- 6.0/10 (367 votes)
An improvised late '60's short-subject student film, and debut movie of Director, Charles Burnett; done...
Quiet as Kept (2007)
- 6 minutes
- Drama
- 5.5/10 (168 votes)
A teenager boy leaves a moment of boredom while his father works on his old...