Stanley Nelson
Directing
Born: 1955-07-07 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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 Voic
🎬 Movies (30)
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
2026
Executive Producer
Free for All: The Public Library
2025
Executive Producer
We Want the Funk!
2025
Director
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
2025
Executive Producer
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
2025
Director
The Inquisitor
2025
Executive Producer
True North
2025
Executive Producer
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect
2025
Executive Producer
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
2025
Executive Producer
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
2024
Executive Producer
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
2024
Director
Disco's Revenge
2024
Executive Producer
Bulls and Saints
2023
Executive Producer
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
2023
Executive Producer
Sound of the Police
2023
Director
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
2023
Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
2023
Executive Producer
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022
Director
Hazing
2022
Executive Producer
After Jackie
2022
Producer
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
2021
Director
Attica
2021
Director
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
2021
Director
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2021
Executive Producer
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Director
Vick
2020
Director
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
Director
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019
Director
The Story of Access
2018
Director
Black Memorabilia
2018
Script Supervisor
