Sam Pollard
Directing · Born 1945-04-20 · Harlem, New York, USA
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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I Was Born This Way 2025
Director
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys 2024
Director
South to Black Power 2023
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The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools 2023
Director
The League 2023
Director
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes 2023
Director
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power 2022
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Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities 2022
Director
Citizen Ashe 2021
Director
Black Art: In the Absence of Light 2021
Director
MLK/FBI 2020
Director
Mr. SOUL! 2018
Director
Maynard 2017
Director
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me 2017
Director
Acorn and the Firestorm 2017
Director
The Talk: Race in America 2017
Director
Two Trains Runnin' 2016
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August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand 2015
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Slavery by Another Name 2012
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Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV 2010
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Chinatown Film Project 2009
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Love That Movie 2009
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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun 2008
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Marvin Gaye: What's Going On 2008
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John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend 2006
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The Making of 'Bamboozled' 2001
Director
Goin' Back to T-Town 1993
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Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
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Counting The Ballots
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The Sound of Philadelphia
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TUTU
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