Sam Pollard
Directing
Born April 20, 1945 · 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."
Directed (32)
Tutu
2026
Tutu
2026
I Was Born This Way
2025
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
2024
South to Black Power
2023
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
2023
The League
2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2022
Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities
2022
Citizen Ashe
2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021
MLK/FBI
2020
Mr. SOUL!
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
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
Slavery by Another Name
2012
Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
2010
Chinatown Film Project
2009
Love That Movie
2009
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
2008
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
2006
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001
Goin' Back to T-Town
1993
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Counting The Ballots
The Sound of Philadelphia
