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Stanley Nelson
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1955Born, New York City
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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).
Known for
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples TempleDirector
Miles Davis: Birth of the CoolDirector
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracyDirector
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the RevolutionDirector
30 for 30Director2026The Color of ColaDirector · Executive ProducerMovie
2025Lani B. Supreme: LegacyExecutive ProducerMovie
2025Cindy Tran: From Here to HereExecutive ProducerMovie
2025Becoming Thurgood: America's Social ArchitectExecutive ProducerMovie
2025True North: Canadian Myths and Black PowerExecutive ProducerMovie
2025Sun Ra: Do the ImpossibleExecutive ProducerMovie
2025The InquisitorExecutive ProducerMovie
2025Free for All: The Public LibraryExecutive ProducerMovie
2025Critical Condition: Health in Black AmericaDirectorMovie
2025We Want the Funk!Director · AuthorMovie
2024San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost NeighborhoodDirectorMovie
2024Sister Úna Lived a Good DeathExecutive ProducerMovie
2024Disco's RevengeExecutive ProducerMovie
2023Bulls and SaintsExecutive ProducerMovie
2023Sound of the PoliceDirector · ProducerMovie
2023Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary GaffneyExecutive ProducerMovie
2023Jonathan Thunder: Good MythologyExecutive ProducerMovie
2023Sydney G. James: How We See UsExecutive ProducerMovie
2022Becoming Frederick DouglassDirector · Producer, Executive ProducerMovie
2022After JackieProducerMovie
2022HazingExecutive ProducerMovie
2021Harriet Tubman: Visions of FreedomDirectorMovie
2021Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great DayExecutive ProducerMovie
2021AtticaDirector · Writer · ProducerMovie
2021Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race MassacreDirectorMovie
2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracyDirectorMovie
2020Black PanthersDirector · 2 episodesShow
2020VickDirectorMovie
2019Miles Davis: Birth of the CoolDirector · ProducerMovie
2019BOSS: The Black Experience in BusinessProducer · DirectorMovie
2018The Story of AccessDirectorMovie
2018Black MemorabiliaScript SupervisorMovie
2017American CarnageExecutive ProducerMovie
2017Gavin Grimm vs.Executive ProducerMovie
2017Picket LineExecutive ProducerMovie
2017Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and UniversitiesDirector · Screenplay · ProducerMovie
2015Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the BandExecutive ProducerMovie
2015The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the RevolutionDirector · Writer · ProducerMovie
2014Freedom SummerDirector · WriterMovie
2012Focus Forward: Short Films, Big IdeasDirectorMovie
2012Jesse OwensWriter · ProducerMovie
2010Freedom RidersWriter · Director · ProducerMovie
200930 for 30Director · 2 episodesShow
2009We Shall RemainDirector · 1 episodeShow
2008Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New OrleansExecutive ProducerMovie
2006Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples TempleDirectorMovie
2004A Place of Our OwnDirector · Writer · ProducerMovie
2004Beyond Brown: Pursuing the PromiseDirectorMovie
2003The Murder of Emmett TillDirectorMovie
2001Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the WhirlwindDirectorMovie
1999The Black Press: Soldiers Without SwordsProducer · Director · WriterMovie
1988American ExperienceWriter · 1 episode · Producer · 1 episodeShow
1987Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. WalkerDirector · Producer, Researcher · EditorMovie
1985Frederick Douglass: An American LifeSound RecordistMovie
1981Puerto Rico: Our Right to DecideWriterMovie
1976Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)Assistant Editor · SoundMovie
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