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Sam Pollard

American director, film editor, screenwriter and producer · United States · On the map · Directors

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.

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2026Crime and Punishment in AmericaSeries, ProducerFull Circle: The First All Black Everest AscentFilm, 2026Producer2025I Was Born This WayFilm, Director2024PhotographerSeries, Director2023Bill Russell: LegendSeries, DirectorCarlosFilm, 2023Producer2022Lowndes County and the Road to Black PowerFilm, Director2021TigerSeries, ProducerBlack Art: In the Absence of LightFilm, 2021Director, Producer2020Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost ChildrenSeries, Director, Producer2018Mr. SOUL!Film, Director2017Acorn and the FirestormFilm, Director, Writer2016Two Trains Runnin'Film, Director2015August Wilson: The Ground on Which I StandFilm, Director2012Slavery by Another NameFilm, Director2010If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't RiseSeries, Producer2008Marvin Gaye: What's Going OnFilm, Director, Writer2006John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the LegendFilm, Director2003The BluesSeries, Producer1999I'll Make Me a WorldSeries, Director19974 Little GirlsFilm, Producer1993Goin' Back to T-TownFilm, Director, Producer1988American ExperienceSeries, Director1986American MastersSeries, Director

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Spike Lee, whose films Pollard has edited and produced, described him as being "a master filmmaker." Henry Louis Gates Jr. characterizes Pollard's 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."

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United States
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Directors
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Movie Director

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