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."
Crew
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, Producer
Body and Soul
Editor
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
Producer, Director
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Producer, Director
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Editor
The Chinatown Files
Consulting Editor
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Director
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
Editor
Slavery by Another Name
Director
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, Director, Writer
Mo' Better Blues
Editor
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Director
The League
Director
Night of the Zombies
Editor
Maynard
Director, Writer
Clockers
Editor
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Editor
Carlos
Producer
Counting The Ballots
Director
Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
Director
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
Director, Producer, Supervising Editor
Love That Movie
Director, Writer
The Sound of Philadelphia
Director
I Was Born This Way
Director
South to Black Power
Director
Mr. SOUL!
Director
Remote Area Medical
Editor
Girl 6
Editor
Forever Young
Editor
Metropolitan Cats
Editor
The Little Players
Editor
4 Little Girls
Editor, Producer
Wrestle
Consulting Producer
Private Resort
Editor
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
Director, Producer
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Director
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Editor
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, Producer
Chinatown Film Project
Director
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
Writer, Director
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