Stanley Nelson
- Directing
- July 7, 1955 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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).
Known for
Filmography
- The Color of Cola · Director, Executive producer
- American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez · Executive producer
- Lani B. Supreme: Legacy · Executive producer
- Cindy Tran: From Here to Here · Executive producer
- Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect · Executive producer
- True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power · Executive producer
- Sun Ra: Do the Impossible · Executive producer
- The Inquisitor · Executive producer
- Free for All: The Public Library · Executive producer
- Critical Condition: Health in Black America · Director
- We Want the Funk! · Director, Author
- San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood · Director
- Sister Úna Lived a Good Death · Executive producer
- Hollywood Black · Self
- Disco's Revenge · Executive producer
- Bulls and Saints · Executive producer
- Sound of the Police · Director, Producer
- Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney · Executive producer
- Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology · Executive producer
- Sydney G. James: How We See Us · Executive producer
- Becoming Frederick Douglass · Director, Producer
- After Jackie · Producer
- Hazing · Executive producer
- Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom · Director
- Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day · Executive producer
- Attica · Director, Writer
- Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre · Director
- Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy · Director
- Black Panthers · Director
- Vick · Director
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool · Director, Producer
- BOSS: The Black Experience in Business · Producer, Director
- The Story of Access · Director
- Black Memorabilia · Script Supervisor
- American Carnage · Executive producer
- Gavin Grimm vs. · Executive producer
- Picket Line · Executive producer
- Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities · Director, Screenplay
- Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band · Executive producer
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution · Director, Writer
- Freedom Summer · Director, Writer
- Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas · Director
- Jesse Owens · Writer, Producer
- Freedom Riders · Writer, Director
- 30 for 30 · Director
- We Shall Remain · Director
- Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans · Executive producer
- Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple · Director
- A Place of Our Own · Self, Director
- Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise · Director
- The Murder of Emmett Till · Director
- Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind · Director
- The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords · Producer, Director
- The Daily Show · Self
- American Experience · Writer, Producer
- Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker · Director, Producer
- Frederick Douglass: An American Life · Sound Recordist
- Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide · Writer
- Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) · Assistant Editor, Sound