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Sam Pollard

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1945-04-20 (79 years old)

Biography

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

all 98

Movies 83

Director 31

Producer 30

TV Shows 15

self 2

Executive Producer

Sam Pollard

Biography

Filmography

all 98

Movies 83

Director 31

Producer 30

TV Shows 15

self 2

The Perfect Neighbor (2025)

Keeper (2024)

Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys (2024)

Black Table (2024)

Photographer (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)

Bill Russell: Legend (2023)

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)

The Picture Taker (2022)

Hostages (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)

Tiger (2021)

MLK/FBI (2020)

Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: The Lonnie Holley Story (2020)

Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (2020)

D. Wade: Life Unexpected (2020)

Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance (2020)

Why We Hate (2019)

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)

F(l)ag Football (2015)

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)

The Cooler Bandits (2014)

Griot (2013)

Remote Area Medical (2013)

The Pleasures of Being/ Out of Step: Notes on the Life of/ Nat Hentoff (2013)

Venus and Serena (2012)

Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012)

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

Gerrymandering (2010)

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (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)

John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend (2006)

Inside Man (2006)

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2005)

Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (2004)

Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)

The Blues (2003)

Feel Like Going Home (2003)

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)

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)

Independent Lens (1999)

I'll Make Me a World (1999)

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1945-04-20 (79 years old)

Birth Place
Harlem, New York, USA

Citizenships
United States

Also Known As
Samuel D. Pollard, Samuel Pollard