Stanley Nelson
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Directing · Born 1955-07-07 · age 71 · New York City, New York, USA
Stanley Earl Nelson Jr. (born June 7, 1951) is an American documentary filmmaker and a MacArthur Fellow known as a director, writer and producer of documentaries examining African-American history and experiences. He is a recipient of the 2013 National Humanities Medal from President Obama. He has won three Primetime Emmy Awards. Among his notable films are Freedom Riders (2010), Wounded Knee (2009), Jonestown: The Life & Death of People's Temple (2006), Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005), A Place of Our Own (2004), The Murder of Emmett Till (2003), and The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (1998).
Titles
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
American Experience
30 for 30
Attica
We Want the Funk!
Freedom Riders
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Disco's Revenge
Freedom Summer
The Murder of Emmett Till
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Vick
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Sound of the Police
After Jackie
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
Black Panthers
Jesse Owens
A Place of Our Own
Gavin Grimm vs.
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
We Shall Remain
Hazing
Bulls and Saints
The Story of Access
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Free for All: The Public Library
Black Memorabilia
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
American Carnage
Picket Line
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
The Inquisitor
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect