Roger Ross Williams
Directing
Biography
Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1962) is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film Music by Prudence; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009.
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As actor 4
On the crew 61
Independent Lens
1999
POV
1988
Storyville
1997
Undercover Boss
2010
The Super Models
2023
The 1619 Project
2023
The New Yorker Presents
2016
Dogs
2018
The Innocence Files
2020
Savior Complex
2023
Cassandro
2023
Stamped from the Beginning
2023
Between the World and Me
2020
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
2025
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
2023
Life, Animated
2016
The Apollo
2019
Life 360
2002
TLC Forever
2023
Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World
2024
American Jail
2018
Sex, Drugs and Consequences
1996
Civil: Ben Crump
2022
Master of Light
2022
Stone Mountain
2024
How to Build a Library
2025
Boys Will Be Girls
2003
The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion
2019
The Empire of Ebony
The Rachel Divide
2018
Magic Ring
2022
Traveling While Black
2019
Strange Arrivals
God Loves Uganda
2013
After Maria
2019
One Story Up
2020
Sheila Bridges: Designer Living
2002
Alone No Love
2007
The Battle for Laikipia
2024
Land of the Lost Sidekicks
2016
Reagan: A Life In Pictures
2000
Music by Prudence
2010
Through Sunless Ways
2023
First Off The Tee
2003
Take Back the Harbor
2018
Tutu: The Essence of Being Human
2014
Moroccan Style
2004
New York Underground
2003
Amazing Families
2006
The Lives They Lived
2003
Ranger
2021
Challenge America With Erin Brockovich
2001
People Yearbook '95
1995
Gospel of Intolerance
2015
Discovered at Sundance
1997
Power, Privilege & Justice
2003
Blackface
2015
Time
2001
Secret Son
2002
Jaiquan's Sketch
2019