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Stanley Nelson
New York City, New York, USA
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…
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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).
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2026
The Color of Cola
Movie Director
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2026
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
The Inquisitor
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Free for All: The Public Library
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
Movie Director
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2025
We Want the Funk!
Movie Director
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2024
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
Movie Director
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2024
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self
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2024
Disco's Revenge
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Bulls and Saints
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Sound of the Police
Movie Producer
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2023
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Movie Director
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2022
After Jackie
Movie Producer
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2022
Hazing
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Movie Director
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2021
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Attica
Movie Director
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2021
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Movie Director
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2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Movie Director
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2020
Black Panthers
TV show Director
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2020
Vick
Movie Director
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2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie Director
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2019
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
Movie Producer
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2018
The Story of Access
Movie Director
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2018
Black Memorabilia
Movie Script Supervisor
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2017
American Carnage
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Gavin Grimm vs.
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Picket Line
Movie Executive Producer
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2015
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Movie Executive Producer
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2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Movie Director
