The talent
Stanley Nelson
Directing
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The work
2006
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Director
2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Director, Producer
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Director
2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Director, Producer, Writer
2009
30 for 30
Director
1988
American Experience
Writer, Producer
2021
Attica
Director, Writer, Producer
2025
We Want the Funk!
Director, Author
2010
Freedom Riders
Writer, Director, Producer
2024
Disco's Revenge
Executive Producer
2017
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Director, Screenplay, Producer
2014
Freedom Summer
Writer, Director
2003
The Murder of Emmett Till
Director
2021
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Director
2020
Vick
Director
2025
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Executive Producer
2023
Sound of the Police
Producer, Director
2022
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Director, Producer, Executive Producer
2021
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Director
2021
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Executive Producer
1999
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Producer, Director, Writer
2025
True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power
Executive Producer
2023
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Executive Producer
2022
After Jackie
Producer
Stanhope Wheatcroft