Sam Pollard
- Directing
- April 20, 1945 · Harlem, New York, USA
Biography
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."
Known for
Filmography
- Crime and Punishment in America · Executive producer
- Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent · Executive producer
- The Lorraine · Director
- Tutu · Director
- Natchez · Executive producer
- Teaching America · Executive producer
- The Perfect Neighbor · Executive producer
- This Is Not a Drill · Consulting Producer
- Katrina: Come Hell and High Water · Executive producer
- I Was Born This Way · Director
- Keeper · Executive producer
- Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys · Director, Producer
- Black Table · Executive producer
- Photographer · Director
- South to Black Power · Director
- Carlos · Producer
- LIFT · Executive producer
- The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools · Director, Producer
- The League · Director
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes · Producer, Director
- Subject · Self
- Bill Russell: Legend · Director
- Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power · Director
- The Picture Taker · Editorial Consultant
- Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities · Director
- Hostages · Director
- Outta the Muck · Executive producer
- Citizen Ashe · Director
- Hold Your Fire · Consulting Producer
- A Crime on the Bayou · Consulting Producer
- Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) · Executive producer
- Black Art: In the Absence of Light · Director, Producer
- Tiger · Executive producer
- MLK/FBI · Director
- Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children · Director, Executive producer
- D. Wade: Life Unexpected · Producer
- Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance · Consulting Producer
- Why We Hate · Director
- Mr. SOUL! · Director
- Wrestle · Consulting Producer
- Maynard · Director, Writer
- Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me · Director
- Acorn and the Firestorm · Director, Producer
- The Talk: Race in America · Director
- Two Trains Runnin' · Director
- August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand · Director
- Style Wars In The Cutting Room · Himself / Editor of Style Wars
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women · Executive producer
- Remote Area Medical · Editing
- Venus and Serena · Editing
- Joe Papp in Five Acts · Editing
- Slavery by Another Name · Director
- Gerrymandering · Editing
- If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise · Editing, Producer
- Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV · Director
- By the People: The Election of Barack Obama · Editing
- Chinatown Film Project · Director
- Love That Movie · Director, Writer
- Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun · Director
- Marvin Gaye: What's Going On · Writer, Director
- Pete Seeger: The Power of Song · Editing
- Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence · Editorial Consultant
- John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend · Director
- Inside Man · Additional Editing
- Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal · Editing
- The Blues · Producer
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow · Director, Producer
- Jim Brown: All-American · Co-producer
- The Chinatown Files · Consulting Editor
- The Making of 'Bamboozled' · Director, Producer
- Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks · Editing
- Bamboozled · Editing
- Independent Lens · Director
- I'll Make Me a World · Director
- 4 Little Girls · Editing, Producer
- Girl 6 · Editing
- Clockers · Editing
- Surviving the Game · Editing
- Goin' Back to T-Town · Director, Producer
- Juice · Editing