Sam Pollard

from Harlem, New York, USA

Biography

Samuel D. Pollard is an American film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. 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.”

Timeline

2026

  • Poster for Natchez

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Tutu

    Director

  • The Lorraine

    Director

  • Poster for Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent

    Executive Producer

2025

  • Poster for I Was Born This Way

    Director

  • Poster for This Is Not a Drill

    Consulting Producer

  • Poster for The Perfect Neighbor

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Teaching America

    Executive Producer

2024

  • Poster for Black Table

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys

    Supervising Editor

  • Poster for Keeper

    Executive Producer

2023

2022

2021

  • Poster for Black Art: In the Absence of Light

    Producer

  • Poster for Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for A Crime on the Bayou

    Consulting Producer

  • Poster for Hold Your Fire

    Consulting Producer

  • Poster for Citizen Ashe

    Director

2020

  • Poster for Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance

    Consulting Producer

  • Poster for D. Wade: Life Unexpected

    Producer

  • Poster for MLK/FBI

    Director

2018

  • Poster for Wrestle

    Consulting Producer

  • Poster for Mr. SOUL!

    Director

2017

  • Poster for The Talk: Race in America

    Director

  • Poster for Acorn and the Firestorm

    Writer

  • Poster for Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me

    Director

  • Poster for Maynard

    Writer

2016

  • Poster for Two Trains Runnin'

    Director

2015

  • Poster for August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

    Director

2014

2013

  • Poster for Remote Area Medical

    Editor

2012

  • Poster for Slavery by Another Name

    Director

  • Poster for Joe Papp in Five Acts

    Editor

  • Poster for Venus and Serena

    Editor

2008

2007

  • Poster for Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence

    Editorial Consultant

  • Poster for Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

    Editor

2006

  • Poster for Inside Man

    Additional Editing

  • Poster for John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend

    Director

2004

  • Poster for Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal

    Editor

2002

  • Poster for Jim Brown: All-American

    Co-Producer

2001

  • Poster for The Making of 'Bamboozled'

    Producer

  • Poster for The Chinatown Files

    Consulting Editor

2000

  • Poster for Bamboozled

    Editor

  • Poster for Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

    Editor

1997

  • Poster for 4 Little Girls

    Producer

1996

  • Poster for Girl 6

    Editor

1995

  • Poster for Clockers

    Editor

1994

  • Poster for Surviving the Game

    Editor

1993

  • Poster for Goin' Back to T-Town

    Producer

1992

  • Poster for Juice

    Editor

1991

  • Poster for Jungle Fever

    Editor

1990

  • Poster for Mo' Better Blues

    Editor

1988

  • Poster for A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly

    Editor

1987

  • Poster for Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

    Editor

1985

  • Poster for Private Resort

    Editor

1984

  • Poster for Style Wars

    Editor

1983

  • Poster for Metropolitan Cats

    Editor

1981

  • Poster for The Little Players

    Editor

  • Poster for Forever Young

    Editor

  • Poster for Night of the Zombies

    Editor

  • Poster for Body and Soul

    Editor

1973

  • Poster for Ganja & Hess

    Assistant Editor