A multiview display comprising: a multiview backlight comprising: an array of active emitters spaced apart from one another, an active emitter of the active emitter array being configured to emit light as a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of the multiview display, and an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams and provide a multiview image, the array of light valves being arranged as multiview pixels of the multiview display, a view pixel corresponding to a light valve of the array of light valves, wherein a size of an active emitter (s) of the active emitter array is between one-half and two times a size of a light valve of the light valve array, and wherein a center-to-center distance between adjacent active emitters (d) in the active emitter array is equal to a center-to-center distance between adjacent multiview pixels of the multiview display, wherein each view pixel is associated with a predetermined one of the respective different view directions of the multiview display, and wherein each multiview pixel comprises a set of view pixels corresponding to each of the different view directions of the multiview display, and wherein the array of active emitters are spaced apart from one another on a planar substrate, the multiview display further comprising a broad-angle backlight adjacent to the planar substrate, the broad-angle backlight being configured to provide broad-angle emitted light, wherein a combination of the array of active emitters and the planar substrate is configured to be transparent to the broad-angle emitted light, wherein the broad-angle emitted light has a cone angle that is greater than a cone angle of a view of the multiview display, wherein the broad-angle emitted light has a cone angle of greater than 40 degrees. an array of active emitters spaced apart from one another, an active emitter of the active emitter array being configured to emit light as a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of the multiview display, and an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams and provide a multiview image, the array of light valves being arranged as multiview pixels of the multiview display, a view pixel corresponding to a light valve of the array of light valves, wherein a size of an active emitter (s) of the active emitter array is between one-half and two times a size of a light valve of the light valve array, and wherein a center-to-center distance between adjacent active emitters (d) in the active emitter array is equal to a center-to-center distance between adjacent multiview pixels of the multiview display, wherein each view pixel is associated with a predetermined one of the respective different view directions of the multiview display, and wherein each multiview pixel comprises a set of view pixels corresponding to each of the different view directions of the multiview display, and wherein the array of active emitters are spaced apart from one another on a planar substrate, the multiview display further comprising a broad-angle backlight adjacent to the planar substrate, the broad-angle backlight being configured to provide broad-angle emitted light, wherein a combination of the array of active emitters and the planar substrate is configured to be transparent to the broad-angle emitted light, wherein the broad-angle emitted light has a cone angle that is greater than a cone angle of a view of the multiview display, wherein the broad-angle emitted light has a cone angle of greater than 40 degrees.