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