Charles Burnett
Charles Burnett was born in 1944 in Mississippi. While earning an MFA in filmmaking at UCLA, he directed his first feature, the acclaimed
Killer of Sheep. His other films include
My Brother's Wedding,
To Sleep with Anger,
The Glass Shield, and
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property. The Library of Congress has entered two of his films
Killer of Sheep and
To Sleep with Angerinto the National Film Registry.