Sam Pollard Movies

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...

Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle...

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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

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

In 1973, four young African-American men stealing guns for self-defense in Brooklyn were cornered by the NYPD. A violent gun battle killed a police...

Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate....

We visit a magical repertory company with an absolutely unique group of five actors you’ve never seen before. Uniquely talented, they present...

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...

Gerrymandering is a 2010 documentary feature film written and directed by Jeff Reichert. The film explores the history and the ethical, moral and...

In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.

From ancient Chinese sculpture to the modern Broadway stage, cats have long been a source of inspiration for artists. This unusual film juxtaposes...

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

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...

Director Sam Pollard constructs a portrait of charismatic trailblazer Maynard Jackson, who became Atlanta’s first black mayor in 1973. The son...

Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their...

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...

Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the...

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.