Sam Pollard
Directing · Born 1945-04-20 · age 81 · 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."
Titles
Inside Man
Juice
Clockers
Jungle Fever
The Perfect Neighbor
Mo' Better Blues
Private Resort
Surviving the Game
Bamboozled
Girl 6
Ganja & Hess
Style Wars
4 Little Girls
American Experience
Tiger
American Masters
Bill Russell: Legend
MLK/FBI
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
The Blues
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
Independent Lens
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Venus and Serena
Body and Soul
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Carlos
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Why We Hate
Wrestle
Hostages
Citizen Ashe
Hold Your Fire
Jim Brown: All-American
Slavery by Another Name
Two Trains Runnin'
The League
Night of the Zombies
Maynard
Remote Area Medical
Eyes on the Prize
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
A Crime on the Bayou
Gerrymandering
Acorn and the Firestorm
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
Mr. SOUL!
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
LIFT
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
South to Black Power
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Natchez
Photographer
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools