Stanley Nelson

Stanley Nelson

Filmography

As Cast

Hollywood Black (2024)
as Self
A Place of Our Own (2004)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Daily Show (1996)
as Self

As Crew

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026)
Executive Producer
The Color of Cola (2026)
Director, 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: Canadian Myths and Black Power (2025)
Executive Producer
Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect (2025)
Executive Producer
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy (2025)
Executive Producer
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here (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, Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us (2023)
Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology (2023)
Executive Producer
Becoming Frederick Douglass (2022)
Director, Executive Producer, Producer
Hazing (2022)
Executive Producer
After Jackie (2022)
Producer
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom (2021)
Director
Attica (2021)
Director, Writer, Producer
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
Black Panthers (2020)
Director
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
Director, Producer
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business (2019)
Director, Producer
The Story of Access (2018)
Director
Black Memorabilia (2018)
Script Supervisor
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017)
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Gavin Grimm vs. (2017)
Executive Producer
American Carnage (2017)
Executive Producer
Picket Line (2017)
Executive Producer
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015)
Executive Producer
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
Director, Writer, Producer
Freedom Summer (2014)
Director, Writer
Jesse Owens (2012)
Producer, Writer
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas (2012)
Director
Freedom Riders (2010)
Writer, Director, Producer
We Shall Remain (2009)
Director
30 for 30 (2009)
Director
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)
Executive Producer
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
Director
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise (2004)
Director
A Place of Our Own (2004)
Writer, Director, Producer
The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)
Director
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001)
Director
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1999)
Producer, Director, Writer
American Experience (1988)
Producer, Writer
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker (1987)
Director, Editor, Researcher, Producer
Frederick Douglass: An American Life (1985)
Sound Recordist
Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide (1981)
Writer
Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops) (1976)
Sound, Assistant Editor