Stanley Nelson
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).
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
(Director)
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
(Director)
Becoming Frederick Douglass
(Director)
Hazing
(Executive Producer)
After Jackie
(Producer)
Freedom Summer
(Director)
Freedom Summer
(Writer)
Attica
(Director)
Bulls and Saints
(Executive Producer)
Freedom Riders
(Writer)
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
(Executive Producer)
Attica
(Writer)
Attica
(Producer)
Jesse Owens
(Producer)
Jesse Owens
(Writer)
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
(Executive Producer)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
(Director)
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
(Director)
Becoming Frederick Douglass
(Executive Producer)
Becoming Frederick Douglass
(Producer)
The Story of Access
(Director)
The Murder of Emmett Till
(Director)
Freedom Riders
(Director)
Freedom Riders
(Producer)
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
(Producer)
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
(Executive Producer)
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
(Director)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
(Writer)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
(Producer)
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
(Executive Producer)
Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide
(Writer)
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
(Director)
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
(Producer)
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
(Screenplay)
A Place of Our Own
(Writer)
A Place of Our Own
(Director)
Free for ALL: Inside the Public Library
(Executive Producer)
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
(Director)
Black Memorabilia
(Script Supervisor)
Sound of the Police
(Director)
Sound of the Police
(Producer)
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
(Executive Producer)
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
(Executive Producer)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
(Director)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
(Producer)
A Place of Our Own
(Producer)
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
(Director)
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
(Producer)
Gavin Grimm vs.
(Executive Producer)
American Carnage
(Executive Producer)
Vick
(Director)
Picket Line
(Executive Producer)
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
(Writer)
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
(Director)
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
(Sound Recordist)
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
(Director)
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
(Editor)
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
(Researcher)
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
(Producer)
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
(Sound)
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
(Assistant Editor)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
(Director)
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
(Director)
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
(Director)
We Shall Remain
(Director)
Black Panthers
(Director)
American Experience
(Writer)
American Experience
(Producer)
30 for 30
(Director)