Year: 2026
Running time: 1h 40m
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Documentary
US release: 16 October 2026
Premiere: 25 January 2026
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem

You are cordially invited to a film 50 years in the making.

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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