Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 07, 1955
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
59 titles
Stanley Nelson
Biography
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
Filmography
The Color of Cola
Director
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Executive Producer
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here
Executive Producer
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
Executive Producer
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect
Executive Producer
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
Executive Producer
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Executive Producer
The Inquisitor
Executive Producer
Free for All: The Public Library
Executive Producer
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
Director
We Want the Funk!
Director
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
Director
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Executive Producer
Hollywood Black
Self
Disco's Revenge
Executive Producer
Bulls and Saints
Executive Producer
Sound of the Police
Director
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Executive Producer
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Director
After Jackie
Producer
Hazing
Executive Producer
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Director
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Executive Producer
Attica
Director
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Director
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Director
Black Panthers
Director
Vick
Director
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Director
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
Producer
The Story of Access
Director
Black Memorabilia
Script Supervisor
American Carnage
Executive Producer
Gavin Grimm vs.
Executive Producer
Picket Line
Executive Producer
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Director
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Executive Producer
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Director
Freedom Summer
Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Director
Jesse Owens
Writer
Freedom Riders
Writer
30 for 30
Director
We Shall Remain
Director
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Executive Producer
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Director
A Place of Our Own
Self - Narrator (voice)
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
Director