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Stanley Nelson

Producer, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born July 7, 1955 (69 years)
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).
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • When I Walk
Known For
  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
  • Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
  • Attica
  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
  • 30 for 30
  • American Experience
  • Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
  • Freedom Summer
  • Sound of the Police
  • The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
  • Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
  • Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
  • Becoming Frederick Douglass
  • After Jackie
  • Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day'
  • Homegoings
  • Independent Lens
  • Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
  • Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
  • Boss: The Black Experience in Business
  • Hazing
  • American Masters
  • Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Filmography

2020
2020
The ReidOut (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2011
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton (TV Series) · as Self
2004
A Place of Our Own · as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self
2001
Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self
1996
The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self
1994
WGN Morning News (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self
1986
The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) · as Self
1975
PBS News Hour (TV Series) · as Self

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