Sam Pollard Movies

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North...

Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film...

In the summer of ’83 a camera crew visited Valkhn Films, an editing house where Style Wars was being painstakingly spliced together. This 25...

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama is a documentary film produced by Edward Norton broadcast in November 2009 on HBO, which follows Barack...

Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a...

Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.

Jamario, Jaquan, Jailen, and Teague are teammates on the J.O. Johnson High School wrestling team in Huntsville, Alabama. Led by their passionate...

Lift shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young homeless and home-insecure ballet...

This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades....

The search of several young, white men for blues singers who have been missing for decades coincides with the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in...

Amid the nation’s ongoing debate over health care reform, this bracing new documentary examines the everyday realities of Americans who lack...

Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities follows realtor Brenda Dixon, mayoral candidate Khalid Kamau, club owner Devon Woodson, and social change...

Documentary about the increasingly necessary conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their...

Documentary will explore how Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell – together known as "The Mighty Three" – founded the record label...

Examines the fear of aging and what post-retirement years are really like by interviewing a group of active, interested people, all over the age of...

For a decade, Dwayne Wade intimately documented his life and career with a film crew. The result is a remarkably candid portrait of one of the...

Surviving childhood abuse during his upbringing in Baltimore, Archbishop Carl Bean forged a path to New York and Hollywood to do the one thing he...

Venus and Serena takes an honest and unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of sisters and tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams. Through the...

A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama's final year in office through the present.

A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.