Stanley Nelson
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).
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Filmes (53)
The Color of Cola
2026 · Director, Executive Producer
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
2026 · Executive Producer
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
2025 · Executive Producer
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here
2025 · Executive Producer
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect
2025 · Executive Producer
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
2025 · Executive Producer
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
2025 · Executive Producer
The Inquisitor
2025 · Executive Producer
Free for All: The Public Library
2025 · Executive Producer
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
2025 · Director
We Want the Funk!
2025 · Director, Author
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
2024 · Director
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
2024 · Executive Producer
Disco's Revenge
2024 · Executive Producer
Bulls and Saints
2023 · Executive Producer
Sound of the Police
2023 · Director, Producer
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
2023 · Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
2023 · Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
2023 · Executive Producer
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022 · Director, Producer, Executive Producer
After Jackie
2022 · Producer
Hazing
2022 · Executive Producer
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
2021 · Director
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2021 · Executive Producer
Attica
2021 · Director, Writer, Producer
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
2021 · Director
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · Director
Vick
2020 · Director
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019 · Director, Producer
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019 · Producer, Director
The Story of Access
2018 · Director
Black Memorabilia
2018 · Script Supervisor
American Carnage
2017 · Executive Producer
Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 · Executive Producer
Picket Line
2017 · Executive Producer
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2017 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 · Executive Producer
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015 · Director, Writer, Producer
Freedom Summer
2014 · Director, Writer
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012 · Director
Jesse Owens
2012 · Writer, Producer
Freedom Riders
2010 · Writer, Director, Producer
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
2008 · Executive Producer
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006 · Director
A Place of Our Own
2004 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
2004 · Director
The Murder of Emmett Till
2003 · Director
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
2001 · Director
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1999 · Producer, Director, Writer
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
1987 · Director, Producer, Editor, Researcher
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
1985 · Sound Recordist
Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide
1981 · Writer
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
1976 · Assistant Editor, Sound
