Sam Pollard

Samuel D. Pollard (born 20 April, 1945; Harlem) is an American documentary director, producer and editor. 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."

Filmography of Sam Pollard

• Tutu (2026)
• I Was Born This Way (2025)
• Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys (2024)
• Photographer (2024)
• Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
• The League (2023)
• South to Black Power (2023)
• Bill Russell: Legend (2023)
• Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)
• Hostages (2022)
• Citizen Ashe (2021)
• Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)
• MLK/FBI (2020)
• Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (2020)
• Why We Hate (2019)
• Mr. SOUL! (2018)
• The Talk: Race in America (2017)
• Acorn and the Firestorm (2017)
• Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017)
• Maynard (2017)
• Two Trains Runnin' (2016)
• August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015)
• Slavery by Another Name (2012)
• Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)
• John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend (2006)
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)
• The Making of 'Bamboozled' (2001)
• Independent Lens (1999)
• Goin' Back to T-Town (1993)
• American Experience (1988)
• Eyes on the Prize (1987)
• American Masters (1986)