Biography
Stanley Nelson is a chronicler of the African American experience. He is a MacArthur Fellow, was awarded an individual Peabody Award for his body of work in May of 2016, and has been honored with five Primetime Emmy Awards and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 2013, Nelson received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. He is a co-founder of Firelight Media.
Sundance Film Festival
Director
| Series | |
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| 2009 |
Freedom Riders |
| Documentaries | |
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| 2023 |
Sound of the Police |
| 2021 |
Attica |
Becoming Frederick Douglass |
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy |
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Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom |
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Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (TV movie) |
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| 2020 |
30 for 30 (series) |
Vick, Part 2 (S04E04) |
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Vick, Part 1 (S04E03) |
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| 2019 |
Boss: The Black Experience In Business |
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool |
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| 2017 |
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities |
| 2015 |
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution |
| 2014 |
Freedom Summer |
| 2012 |
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas |
| 2010 |
Freedom Riders |
| 2009 |
Wounded Knee |
| 2006 |
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple |
| 2004 |
A Place of Our Own |
| 2003 |
The Murder of Emmett Till (TV movie) |
| 2000 |
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (TV movie) |
| 1999 |
Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, The |
| 1987 |
American Experience (series) |
| Concerts | |
|---|---|
| 2021 |
André Rieu: Christmas with André |
Producer
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Sound of the Police |
| 2021 |
Becoming Frederick Douglass |
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom |
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| 2020 |
30 for 30 (series) |
Vick, Part 2 (S04E04) |
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Vick, Part 1 (S04E03) |
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| 2019 |
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool |
| 2017 |
An Act of Worship |
| 2009 |
Wounded Knee |
| 2006 |
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple |
Screenwriter
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2021 |
Attica |
| 2017 |
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities |
| 2014 |
Freedom Summer |
| 2004 |
A Place of Our Own |
Guest
| Shows | |
|---|---|
| 2004 |
Tavis Smiley |
| 1994 |
WGN Morning News |
| 1989 |
CNN Newsroom |