Sam Pollard
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Directing
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."
Filmography
- Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent (2026)
- The Lorraine (2026)
- Tutu (2026)
- Natchez (2026)
- Teaching America (2025)
- The Perfect Neighbor (2025)
- This Is Not a Drill (2025)
- I Was Born This Way (2025)
- Keeper (2024)
- Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys (2024)
- Black Table (2024)
- South to Black Power (2023)
- Carlos (2023)
- LIFT (2023)
- The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools (2023)
- The League (2023)
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
- Subject (2023)
- Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)
- The Picture Taker (2022)
- Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities (2022)
- Outta the Muck (2022)
- Citizen Ashe (2021)
- Hold Your Fire (2021)
- A Crime on the Bayou (2021)
- Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)
- Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)
- MLK/FBI (2020)
- D. Wade: Life Unexpected (2020)
- Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance (2020)
- Mr. SOUL! (2018)
- Wrestle (2018)
- Maynard (2017)
- Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017)
- Acorn and the Firestorm (2017)
- The Talk: Race in America (2017)
- Two Trains Runnin' (2016)
- August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015)
- Style Wars In The Cutting Room (2014)
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
- Remote Area Medical (2013)
- Venus and Serena (2012)
- Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012)
- Slavery by Another Name (2012)
- Gerrymandering (2010)
- Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV (2010)
- By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009)
- Chinatown Film Project (2009)
- Love That Movie (2009)
- Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)
- Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (2008)
- Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)
- Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence (2007)
- John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend (2006)
- Inside Man (2006)
- Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (2004)
- Jim Brown: All-American (2002)
- The Chinatown Files (2001)
- The Making of 'Bamboozled' (2001)
- Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks (2000)
- Bamboozled (2000)
- 4 Little Girls (1997)
- Girl 6 (1996)
- Clockers (1995)
- Surviving the Game (1994)
- Goin' Back to T-Town (1993)
- Juice (1992)
- Jungle Fever (1991)
- Mo' Better Blues (1990)
- A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1988)
- Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)
- Private Resort (1985)
- Style Wars (1984)
- Metropolitan Cats (1983)
- Body and Soul (1981)
- Night of the Zombies (1981)
- Forever Young (1981)
- The Little Players (1981)
- Ganja & Hess (1973)
- Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
- The Sound of Philadelphia
- Counting The Ballots