Sam Pollard
Directing • AGE 81
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 nominati...
Filmography
Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent
Executive Producer
2026
Tutu
Director
2026
Natchez
Executive Producer
2026
Teaching America
Executive Producer
2025
The Perfect Neighbor
Executive Producer
2025
This Is Not a Drill
Consulting Producer
2025
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
Executive Producer
2025
I Was Born This Way
Director
2025
Keeper
Executive Producer
2024
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
Director
2024
Black Table
Executive Producer
2024
Photographer
Director
2024
South to Black Power
Director
2023
Carlos
Producer
2023
LIFT
Executive Producer
2023
The League
Director
2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Producer
2023
Subject
Self
2023
Bill Russell: Legend
Director
2023
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Director
2022
The Picture Taker
Editorial Consultant
2022
Hostages
Director
2022
Outta the Muck
Executive Producer
2022
Citizen Ashe
Director
2021
Hold Your Fire
Consulting Producer
2021
A Crime on the Bayou
Consulting Producer
2021
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Executive Producer
2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Director
2021
Tiger
Executive Producer
2021
MLK/FBI
Director
2020
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
Director
2020
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
Producer
2020
Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
Consulting Producer
2020
Why We Hate
Director
2019
Mr. SOUL!
Director
2018
Wrestle
Consulting Producer
2018
Maynard
Director
2017
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Director
2017
Acorn and the Firestorm
Director
2017
The Talk: Race in America
Director
2017
Two Trains Runnin'
Director
2016
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Director
2015
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Executive Producer
2014
Remote Area Medical
Editor
2013
Venus and Serena
Editor
2012
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Editor
2012
Slavery by Another Name
Director
2012
Gerrymandering
Editor
2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Editor
2010
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Editor
2009
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Director
2008
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
Writer
2008
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Editor
2007
Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence
Editorial Consultant
2007
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
Director
2006
Inside Man
Additional Editing
2006
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Editor
2004
The Blues
Producer
2003
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Director
2002
Jim Brown: All-American
Co-Producer
2002
The Chinatown Files
Consulting Editor
2001
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
Director
2001
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Editor
2000
Bamboozled
Editor
2000
Independent Lens
Director
1999
4 Little Girls
Editor
1997
Girl 6
Editor
1996
Clockers
Editor
1995
Surviving the Game
Editor
1994
Goin' Back to T-Town
Director
1993
Juice
Editor
1992
Jungle Fever
Editor
1991
Mo' Better Blues
Editor
1990
American Experience
Director
1988
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
Editor
1988
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Editor
1987
Eyes on the Prize
Director
1987
American Masters
Director
1986
Private Resort
Editor
1985
Style Wars
Editor
1984
Metropolitan Cats
Editor
1983
Body and Soul
Editor
1981
Night of the Zombies
Editor
1981
Forever Young
Editor
1981
The Little Players
Editor
1981
Ganja & Hess
Assistant Editor
1973