Madeline Anderson

Pioneering filmmaker and television producer Madeline Anderson is often credited as being the first black woman to produce and direct a televised documentary film, the first black woman to produce and direct a syndicated TV series, the first black employee at New York-based public television station National Educational Television (WNET), and one of the first black women to join the film editor’s union. Anderson went on to become the in-house producer and director for Sesame Street and The Electric Company for the Children’s Television Workshop. During the early 1970s, she also helped create what would become WHUT-TV at Howard University, the country's first, and only, black-owned public television station. Anderson was critical of Hollywood and preferred to work outside of that system.

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  A Tribute to Malcolm X

  Director

• Being Me

  Director

• The Walls Come Tumbling Down

  Director

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  Integration Report 1

  Producer

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  I Am Somebody

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• Sisters in Cinema

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  Let the Church Say Amen!

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• 2003Sisters in CinemaSelf
• 1975Being MeDirector
• 1975The Walls Come Tumbling DownDirector
• 1973Let the Church Say Amen!Editor
• 1970I Am SomebodyDirector
• 1967A Tribute to Malcolm XDirector
• 1960Integration Report 1Producer