Sam Pollard
Directing
Biography
Samuel D. Pollard (born 20 April, 1945; Harlem) is an American documentary director, producer and editor. His films have garnered numerous awards such as Peabodys, Emmys, and an Academy Award nomination. In 2020, the International Documentary Association gave him a career achievement award. Spike Lee, whose films Pollard has edited and produced, described him as being "a master filmmaker." Henry Louis Gates Jr. characterizes his work in this way: "When I think about his documentaries, they add up to a corpus — a way of telling African-American history in its various dimensions."
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On the crew 95
American Experience
1988
Independent Lens
1999
American Masters
1986
Inside Man
2006
Private Resort
1985
The Blues
2003
Jungle Fever
1991
Clockers
1995
Bamboozled
2000
Surviving the Game
1994
The Perfect Neighbor
2025
Juice
1992
Bill Russell: Legend
2023
Mo' Better Blues
1990
Girl 6
1996
Photographer
2024
Eyes on the Prize
1987
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
2025
Tiger
2021
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
2002
Why We Hate
2019
Acorn and the Firestorm
2017
Maynard
2017
Hostages
2022
Mr. SOUL!
2018
Tutu
2026
Natchez
2026
I Was Born This Way
2025
Teaching America
2025
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
2020
Body and Soul
1981
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
The League
2023
I'll Make Me a World
1999
Gerrymandering
2010
4 Little Girls
1997
Style Wars
1984
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2009
Wrestle
2018
Carlos
2023
Hold Your Fire
2021
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010
The Lorraine
2026
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2021
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
2024
Slavery by Another Name
2012
MLK/FBI
2020
Night of the Zombies
1981
Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent
2026
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
2020
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001
Jim Brown: All-American
2002
Citizen Ashe
2021
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Ganja & Hess
1973
LIFT
2023
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
1988
Two Trains Runnin'
2016
A Crime on the Bayou
2021
Chinatown Film Project
2009
Outta the Muck
2022
Remote Area Medical
2013
South to Black Power
2023
Goin' Back to T-Town
1993
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2022
The Picture Taker
2022
Venus and Serena
2012
Forever Young
1981
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017
Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
2008
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence
2007
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008
The Sound of Philadelphia
Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
2020
Metropolitan Cats
1983
Keeper
2024
This Is Not a Drill
2025
Counting The Ballots
Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
2010
The Chinatown Files
2001
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
2006
Black Table
2024
Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities
2022
Love That Movie
2009
The Little Players
1981
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
2023
The Talk: Race in America
2017