Sam Pollard
Editor, Producer, Director, Writer, Actor
20 April 1945 (81 years)
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
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| 2012 | Venus and SerenaOn Plex |
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| 2026 | Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | The Perfect Neighbor · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Katrina: Come Hell and High Water · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Natchez · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Rouge · as Executive Producer |
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| 2024 | A Boston (R)Evolution · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Black Table · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color · as Executive Producer |
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| 2023 | Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | Lift · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | We Feed People · as Consulting Producer |
| 2021 | Hold Your Fire · as Consulting Producer |
| 2021 | Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali · as Consulting Producer |
| 2021 | Sisters on Track · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2021 | We Are: The Brooklyn Saints · as Consulting Producer |
| 2021 | Tiger · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | A Crime on the Bayou · as Consulting ProducerOn Plex |
| 2020 | Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children · as Executive Producer |
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| 2019 | Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook · as Consulting ProducerOn Plex |
| 2018 | Wrestle · as Consulting ProducerOn Plex |
| 2017 | The Rape of Recy Taylor · as Consulting Producer |
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| 2015 | In a Perfect World · as Executive Producer |
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| 2014 | F(l)ag Football · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Money Matters · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | The Loving Story · as Consulting Producer |
| 2011 | Griot · as Associate Producer |
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| 2006 | Bragging Rights: Stickball Stories · as Executive Producer |
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| 2003 | Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Jim Brown: All American · as Co-Producer |
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| 2001 | Anatomy of a Hate Crime · as Co-Producer |
| 1999 | Independent Lens · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | Subject · as Self |
| 2022 | African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey · as SelfOn Plex |
| 2020 | GMA3: What You Need to Know · as Self |
| 2013 | Birth of the Living Dead · as Self - Professor, Nyu Film |
| 2011 | Kingdom Come · as Self |
| 2007 | 2007 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2006 | Doc Talk · as Self |
| 2005 | Made In Hollywood · as Self |
| 1999 | Independent Lens · as Self |
| 1988 | American Experience · as Self |
| 2023 | The League · as Bob Motley |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Bamboozled' · as Cast |
| 2024 | Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys · as Supervising Editor |
| 2017 | Burn Motherfucker, Burn! · as Supervising Producer |
| 2014 | F(l)ag Football · as Supervising Editor |
| 2013 | Brothers Hypnotic · as Supervising Producer |
| 2009 | By the People: The Election of Barack Obama · as Field ProducerOn Plex |
| 2007 | Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence · as Editorial Consultant |
| 2006 | Inside Man · as Additional Editing |
| 1973 | Ganja & Hess · as Assistant Editor |