Stanley Nelson
DirectingTotal Credits
56
Acting
3
First Credit
1976
Latest Credit
2026
Freedom Riders
Writer · Director · Producer
2010
30 for 30
Director
2009
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Director · Producer
2019
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Director
2006
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Director · Writer · Producer
2015
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Director
2021
Attica
Director · Writer · Producer
2021
American Experience
Writer · Producer
1988
We Want the Funk!
Director
2025
A Place of Our Own
Self - Narrator (voice) · Writer · Director · Producer
2004
After Jackie
Producer
2022
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Director
2021
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Director · Producer · Screenplay
2017
Jesse Owens
Producer · Writer
2012
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Executive Producer
2021
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Executive Producer
2015
Black Panthers
Director
2020
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Director
2021
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Director
2001
Freedom Summer
Director · Writer
2014
The Murder of Emmett Till
Director
2003
Vick
Director
2020
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Producer · Director · Writer
1999
Becoming Frederick Douglass
Director · Executive Producer · Producer
2022
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Executive Producer
2025
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Executive Producer
2023
We Shall Remain
Director
2009
Disco's Revenge
Executive Producer
2024
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
Director · Producer
2019
True North
Executive Producer
2025
Sound of the Police
Director · Producer
2023
Hollywood Black
Self
2024
Gavin Grimm vs.
Executive Producer
2017
MovieFrederick Douglass: An American Life
Sound Recordist
1985
MovieFree for All: The Public Library
Executive Producer
2025
MovieSan Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
Director
2024
MovieFaubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Executive Producer
2008
MovieThe Inquisitor
Executive Producer
2025
MoviePicket Line
Executive Producer
2017
MovieAmerican Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Executive Producer
2026
MovieSister Úna Lived a Good Death
Executive Producer
2024
MovieFocus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Director
2012
MovieBlack Memorabilia
Script Supervisor
2018
MovieBecoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect
Executive Producer
2025
MovieJonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Executive Producer
2023
MovieHazing
Executive Producer
2022
MovieBeyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
Director
2004
MovieTwo Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
Director · Editor · Researcher · Producer
1987
MovieSydney G. James: How We See Us
Executive Producer
2023
MovieThe Story of Access
Director
2018
Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide
Writer
1981
MovieAmerican Carnage
Executive Producer
2017
MovieCritical Condition: Health in Black America
Director
2025
MovieBulls and Saints
Executive Producer
2023
MovieJust Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)
Sound · Assistant Editor
1976