Stanley Nelson
Directing • AGE 71
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...
Filmography
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Executive Producer
2026
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect
Executive Producer
2025
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
Executive Producer
2025
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Executive Producer
2025
The Inquisitor
Executive Producer
2025
Free for All: The Public Library
Executive Producer
2025
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
Director
2025
We Want the Funk!
Director
2025
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
Director
2024
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Executive Producer
2024
Hollywood Black
Self
2024
Disco's Revenge
Executive Producer
2024
Bulls and Saints
Executive Producer
2023
Sound of the Police
Director
2023
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Executive Producer
2023
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Executive Producer
2023
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Executive Producer
2023
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Director
2022
After Jackie
Producer
2022
Hazing
Executive Producer
2022
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Director
2021
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Executive Producer
2021
Attica
Director
2021
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Director
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Director
2021
Black Panthers
Director
2020
Vick
Director
2020
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Director
2019
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
Producer
2019
The Story of Access
Director
2018
Black Memorabilia
Script Supervisor
2018
American Carnage
Executive Producer
2017
Gavin Grimm vs.
Executive Producer
2017
Picket Line
Executive Producer
2017
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Director
2017
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Executive Producer
2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Director
2015
Freedom Summer
Director
2014
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Director
2012
Jesse Owens
Writer
2012
Freedom Riders
Writer
2010
30 for 30
Director
2009
We Shall Remain
Director
2009
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Executive Producer
2008
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Director
2006
A Place of Our Own
Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
Director
2004
The Murder of Emmett Till
Director
2003
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Director
2001
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Producer
1999
The Daily Show
Self
1996
American Experience
Producer
1988
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
Director
1987
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Sound Recordist
1985
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
Assistant Editor
1976