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).

Filmography of Stanley Nelson

• We Want the Funk! (2025)
• Critical Condition: Health in Black America (2025)
• San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood (2024)
• Sound of the Police (2023)
• Becoming Frederick Douglass (2022)
• Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom (2021)
• Attica (2021)
• Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (2021)
• Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
• Vick (2020)
• Black Panthers (2020)
• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
• BOSS: The Black Experience in Business (2019)
• The Story of Access (2018)
• Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017)
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
• Freedom Summer (2014)
• Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas (2012)
• Freedom Riders (2010)
• We Shall Remain (2009)
• 30 for 30 (2009)
• Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
• Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise (2004)
• A Place of Our Own (2004)
• The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001)
• The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1999)
• Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker (1987)