Sam Pollard

Known for DirectingBorn 1945-04-20 (age 81)Harlem, New York, USA

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."Read more

Movies & web series

Natchez

Photographer

I'll Make Me a World

Wrestle

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools

The Talk: Race in America

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

The Blues

Inside Man

Bill Russell: Legend

Two Trains Runnin'

Style Wars

Carlos

Slavery by Another Name

Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children

D. Wade: Life Unexpected

4 Little Girls

Mr. SOUL!

Juice

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

American Masters

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me

MLK/FBI

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

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

The Perfect Neighbor

Remote Area Medical

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

Why We Hate

A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly

Eyes on the Prize

Subject

Hold Your Fire

Clockers

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

Independent Lens

Tiger

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

American Experience

The League

Mo' Better Blues

Hostages

Jungle Fever

Bamboozled

Black Table