Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026)

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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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00:16Be here with all these intelligences, I'm afraid to open my mind.

00:30It was a beautiful thing to expound your literary ideas, you know they can be very important

00:39to you when they're yours.

00:45This idea that the Harlem Renaissance was just a flash in the pan is false.

00:48The art comes out of a community, and it comes out of audaciousness.

00:52And we ought to see the relevance to our present struggle.

00:56This is a hysterical moment, believe me when I do it.

01:06We must not forget, the Renaissance will never end.

01:18You got it?

01:19You got it?

01:21You got it?

01:22You got it?

01:22Come on!

01:22Make it

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