Sam Pollard
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 20, 1945 (age 81)
- Birthplace
- 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
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Movie · Director
Counting The Ballots
Movie · Director
The Sound of Philadelphia
Movie · Director
Tutu
Movie · Director
The Lorraine
Movie · Director
I Was Born This Way
Movie · Director
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
Movie · Director
Photographer
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
Movie · Director
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie · Director
The League
Movie · Director
South to Black Power
Movie · Director
Bill Russell: Legend
TV · Director · 2 eps
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Movie · Director
Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities
Movie · Director
Hostages
TV · Director · 2 eps
Citizen Ashe
Movie · Director
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Movie · Director
MLK/FBI
Movie · Director
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
TV · Director · 2 eps
Why We Hate
TV · Director · 6 eps
Mr. SOUL!
Movie · Director
The Talk: Race in America
Movie · Director
Acorn and the Firestorm
Movie · Director
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Movie · Director
Maynard
Movie · Director
Two Trains Runnin'
Movie · Director
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Movie · Director
Slavery by Another Name
Movie · Director
Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
Movie · Director
Love That Movie
Movie · Director
Chinatown Film Project
Movie · Director
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Movie · Director
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
Movie · Director
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
Movie · Director
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
TV · Director · 4 eps
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
Movie · Director
Independent Lens
TV · Director · 1 ep
I'll Make Me a World
TV · Director · 6 eps
Goin' Back to T-Town
Movie · Director
American Experience
TV · Director · 3 eps
Eyes on the Prize
TV · Director · 2 eps
American Masters
TV · Director · 4 eps