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Stanley Nelson
1955-07-07 · 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-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).
Known for
The Daily Show
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
30 for 30
American Experience
Attica
We Want the Funk!
Freedom Riders
Disco's Revenge
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Freedom Summer
The Murder of Emmett Till
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Vick
Movie credits · 53
The Color of Cola
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
The Inquisitor
Free for All: The Public Library
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
We Want the Funk!
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Disco's Revenge
Bulls and Saints
Sound of the Police
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Becoming Frederick Douglass
After Jackie
Hazing
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Attica
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Vick
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
The Story of Access
Black Memorabilia
American Carnage
Gavin Grimm vs.
Picket Line
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Freedom Summer
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
TV credits · 6
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