Sam Pollard
Crewed in
The Perfect Neighbor
2025
Executive Producer
Keeper
2024
Executive Producer
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
2024
Director, Producer, Supervising Editor
Black Table
2024
Executive Producer
Photographer
2024
Director
South to Black Power
2023
Director
Carlos
2023
Producer
Lift
2023
Executive Producer
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
2023
Director, Producer
The League
2023
Director
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Producer, Director
Bill Russell: Legend
2023
Director
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2022
Director
The Picture Taker
2022
Editorial Consultant
Hostages
2022
Director
Outta the Muck
2022
Executive Producer
Citizen Ashe
2021
Director
Hold Your Fire
2021
Consulting Producer
A Crime on the Bayou
2021
Consulting Producer
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2021
Executive Producer
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021
Director, Producer
Tiger
2021
Executive Producer
MLK/FBI
2020
Director
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
2020
Producer, Director
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
2020
Producer
Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
2020
Consulting Producer
Why We Hate
2019
Director
Mr. SOUL!
2018
Director
Wrestle
2018
Consulting Producer
Maynard
2017
Director, Writer
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017
Director
Acorn and the Firestorm
2017
Director, Producer, Writer
The Talk: Race in America
2017
Director
Two Trains Runnin'
2016
Director
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
Director
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Executive Producer
Remote Area Medical
2013
Editor
Venus and Serena
2012
Editor
Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012
Editor
Slavery by Another Name
2012
Director
Gerrymandering
2010
Editor
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010
Editor, Producer
Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
2010
Director
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
2009
Editor
Chinatown Film Project
2009
Director
Love That Movie
2009
Director, Writer
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008
Director
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
2008
Writer, Director
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Editor
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
2006
Director
Inside Man
2006
Additional Editing
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
Editor
The Blues
2003
Producer
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
2002
Director, Producer, Writer
Jim Brown: All-American
2002
Co-Producer
The Chinatown Files
2001
Consulting Editor
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001
Director, Producer
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
Editor
Bamboozled
2000
Editor
Independent Lens
1999
Director
I'll Make Me a World
1999
Director
4 Little Girls
1997
Editor, Producer
Girl 6
1996
Editor
Clockers
1995
Editor
Surviving the Game
1994
Editor
Goin' Back to T-Town
1993
Director, Producer
Juice
1992
Editor
Jungle Fever
1991
Editor
Mo' Better Blues
1990
Editor
American Experience
1988
Director
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987
Editor
Eyes on the Prize
1987
Director, Writer
American Masters
1986
Director
Private Resort
1985
Editor
Style Wars
1984
Editor
Metropolitan Cats
1983
Editor
Body and Soul
1981
Editor
Night of the Zombies
1981
Editor
Forever Young
1981
Editor
The Little Players
1981
Editor
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Director
Counting The Ballots
Director
I Was Born This Way
Director
The Sound of Philadelphia
Director
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
Executive Producer