Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A film 50 years in the making

2026

1h 40m

4K ULTRA HD

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.

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Top Cast

Aaron Douglas

Self (archival footage)

Richard Bruce Nugent

Self (archival footage)

Ernest Crichlow

Self (archival footage)

Eubie Blake

Self (archival footage)

Leigh Whipper

Self (archival footage)

Arna Bontemps

Self (archival footage)

William Greaves

Self (archival footage)

James Van Der Zee

Self (archival footage)

Ida Mae Cullen

Self (archival footage)

Noble Sissle

Self (archival footage)