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Sam Pollard

Editor, Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn April 20, 1945 (80 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."

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
  • Venus and Serena
  • Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
  • Wrestle
  • A Crime on the Bayou

Known For

  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • 4 Little Girls
  • Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
  • When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  • MLK/FBI
  • Bill Russell: Legend
  • American Masters
  • Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
  • Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
  • By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
  • Slavery by Another Name
  • The League
  • Black Art: In the Absence of Light
  • If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
  • Hostages (2022)
  • American Experience
  • Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
  • South to Black Power
  • Why We Hate
  • Citizen Ashe
  • Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
  • The Blues
  • ACORN and the Firestorm
  • Hold Your Fire

Sam Pollard Filmography

2025
The Perfect Neighbor · as Executive Producer
2025
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2025
Natchez · as Executive Producer
2024
2024
A Boston (R)Evolution · as Executive Producer
2024
Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
Lift · as Executive Producer
2022
Hostages (2022) (TV Series)
2022
We Feed People · as Consulting Producer
2021
Hold Your Fire · as Consulting Producer
2021
2021
Sisters on Track · as Executive Producer
2021
2021
2021
We Are: The Brooklyn Saints (TV Series) · as Consulting Producer
2021
Tiger (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2020
A Crime on the Bayou · as Consulting Producer
2020
2020
2019
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts · as Executive Producer
2019
2018
Wrestle · as Consulting Producer
2017
The Rape of Recy Taylor · as Consulting Producer
2017
2015
In a Perfect World · as Executive Producer
2015
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
2010
2006
Bragging Rights: Stickball Stories · as Executive Producer
2006
2003
The Blues (TV Series)
2003
2002
Jim Brown: All American · as Co-Producer
2001
2001
Anatomy of a Hate Crime · as Co-Producer
1999
Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1997
1993
1988
1987
Eyes on the Prize (TV Series)
1985
American Masters (TV Series)

2022
Subject · as Self
2022
2020
GMA3: What You Need to Know (TV Series) · as Self
2013
Birth of the Living Dead · as Self - Professor, Nyu Film
2011
Kingdom Come · as Self
2007
2006
Doc Talk (TV Series) · as Self
2005
Made In Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self
1999
Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Self
1988
American Experience (TV Series) · as Self

2017
2017
1988
1987
Eyes on the Prize (TV Series)
1985
American Masters (TV Series)

2023
The League · as Bob Motley
2001

2024
2017
Burn Motherfucker, Burn! · as Supervising Producer
2014
F(l)ag Football · as Supervising Editor
2013
Brothers Hypnotic · as Supervising Producer
2009
2007
Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence · as Editorial Consultant
2006
Inside Man · as Additional Editing

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