Directing · geboren 1955-07-07 · New York City, New York, USA

Stanley Nelson

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).

Bekannt aus

• The Daily Show (1996) – Self
• Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) – Director
• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) – Director
• Crack: Kokain, Korruption und Konspiration (2021) – Director
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) – Director
• 30 for 30 (2009) – Director
• American Experience (1988) – Writer
• Attica (2021) – Director
• We Want the Funk! (2025) – Director
• Freedom Riders (2010) – Writer
• Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017) – Director
• Disco für alle! - Wie ein Sound die Welt veränderte (2024) – Executive Producer
• Freedom Summer (2014) – Writer
• The Murder of Emmett Till (2003) – Director
• Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (2021) – Director
• Vick (2020) – Director
• Hollywood Black (2024) – Self
• Becoming Frederick Douglass (2022) – Director
• Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom (2021) – Director
• The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1999) – Producer
• Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day (2021) – Executive Producer
• Sound of the Police (2023) – Producer
• Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2025) – Executive Producer
• After Jackie (2022) – Producer
• Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney (2023) – Executive Producer
• Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015) – Executive Producer
• BOSS: The Black Experience in Business (2019) – Producer
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001) – Director
• True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power (2025) – Executive Producer
• Black Panthers (2020) – Director
• A Place of Our Own (2004) – Self - Narrator (voice)
• Jesse Owens (2012) – Writer
• Gavin Grimm vs. (2017) – Executive Producer
• San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood (2024) – Director
• Critical Condition: Health in Black America (2025) – Director
• American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) – Executive Producer
• We Shall Remain (2009) – Director
• Hazing (2022) – Executive Producer
• Bulls and Saints (2023) – Executive Producer
• The Story of Access (2018) – Director