Sam Pollard
Born in Harlem, New York, USA — Apr 20 1945
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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…
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Sam Pollard's Credits
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American Experience
Directing
American Masters
Directing
Independent Lens
Directing
Inside Man
Editing
The Blues
Production
Juice
Editing
Bill Russell: Legend
Directing
The Perfect Neighbor
Production
Clockers
Editing
Why We Hate
Directing
Bamboozled
Editing
Photographer
Directing
Surviving the Game
Editing
Private Resort
Editing
Jungle Fever
Editing
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
Production
Mo' Better Blues
Editing
Tiger
Production
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
Directing
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Production
Hostages
Directing
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Directing
Eyes on the Prize
Directing
Girl 6
Editing
Mr. SOUL!
Directing
Natchez
Production
LIFT
Production
Style Wars
Editing
Body and Soul
Editing
4 Little Girls
Editing
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Production
Carlos
Production
I Was Born This Way
Directing
MLK/FBI
Directing
Night of the Zombies
Editing
Ganja & Hess
Editing
Maynard
Directing
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
Directing
Jim Brown: All-American
Production
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Editing
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Directing
Citizen Ashe
Directing
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Directing
The League
Directing
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Directing
Chinatown Film Project
Directing
The Picture Taker
Editing
Gerrymandering
Editing
Two Trains Runnin'
Directing
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Production
The Sound of Philadelphia
Directing
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Editing
Slavery by Another Name
Directing
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
Directing
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Editing
Subject
Self
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Editing
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Directing
Acorn and the Firestorm
Production
South to Black Power
Directing
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Editing
Black Table
Production
Wrestle
Production
A Crime on the Bayou
Production
Hold Your Fire
Production
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Production
Tutu
Directing
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Directing
Tutu
Directing
Remote Area Medical
Editing
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
Production
Venus and Serena
Editing
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
Directing
Goin' Back to T-Town
Directing
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
Editing
Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
Production
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Editing
Forever Young
Editing
I'll Make Me a World
Directing
The Little Players
Editing
Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence
Editing
Metropolitan Cats
Editing
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Directing
The Chinatown Files
Editing
Keeper
Production
Style Wars In The Cutting Room
Himself / Editor of Style Wars
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
Directing
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
Directing
Outta the Muck
Production
Teaching America
Production
Love That Movie
Directing
The Talk: Race in America
Directing
Counting The Ballots
Directing
Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities
Directing
Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
Directing