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Sam Pollard

Editor, Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn April 20, 1945 (80 years)
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."

Known For

  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • 4 Little Girls
  • Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
  • Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
  • When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  • MLK/FBI
  • Bill Russell: Legend
  • By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
  • American Masters
  • Tiger
  • Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
  • Why We Hate
  • American Experience
  • The League
  • Slavery by Another Name
  • Black Art: In the Absence of Light
  • If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
  • Hostages (2022)
  • Photographer
  • Hold Your Fire
  • Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
  • South to Black Power
  • Wrestle
  • Citizen Ashe

Filmography

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