Stanley Nelson
Directing
Born July 7, 1955 · New York City, New York, USA
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 experiences. He is a recipient of the 2013 National Humanities Medal from President Obama. He has won three Primetime Emmy Awards. Among his notable films are Freedom Riders (2010), Wounded Knee (2009), Jonestown: The Life & Death of People's Temple (2006), Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005), A Place of Our Own (2004), The Murder of Emmett Till (2003), and The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (1998).
Directed (25)
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
2025
We Want the Funk!
2025
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
2024
Sound of the Police
2023
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
2021
Attica
2021
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Vick
2020
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019
The Story of Access
2018
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2017
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015
Freedom Summer
2014
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Freedom Riders
2010
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006
A Place of Our Own
2004
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
2004
The Murder of Emmett Till
2003
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
2001
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1999
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
1987