Stanley Nelson

7.6

TV

30 for 30

Director

2009

7.5

Movie

Freedom Riders

Writer · Director · Producer

2010

7.1

Movie

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Director · Producer

2019

7.0

Movie

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Director · Writer · Producer

2015

7.0

Movie

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Director

2006

6.8

Movie

Crack: Cocaína, corrupción y conspiración

Director

2021

6.8

Movie

Attica

Director · Writer · Producer

2021

6.5

TV

American Experience

Writer · Producer

1988

6.1

Movie

We Want the Funk!

Director

2025

9.0

Movie

A Place of Our Own

Self - Narrator (voice) · Writer · Director · Producer

2004

8.5

Movie

After Jackie

Producer

2022

8.1

Movie

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

Director · Producer · Screenplay

2017

8.0

Movie

Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

Executive Producer

2021

8.0

Movie

Jesse Owens

Producer · Writer

2012

8.0

Movie

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Executive Producer

2015

8.0

Movie

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

Director

2001

7.2

Movie

Freedom Summer

Director · Writer

2014

7.0

Movie

The Murder of Emmett Till

Director

2003

6.8

Movie

Disco's Revenge

Executive Producer

2024

6.7

Movie

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

Producer · Director · Writer

1999

6.6

Movie

Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre

Director

2021

6.5

Movie

True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power

Executive Producer

2025

6.5

Movie

Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

Executive Producer

2025

6.5

Movie

Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

Executive Producer

2023

6.0

TV

We Shall Remain

Director

2009

6.0

Movie

Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom

Director

2021

5.6

Movie

Vick

Director

2020

5.0

Movie

Gavin Grimm vs.

Executive Producer

2017

4.7

Movie

Becoming Frederick Douglass

Director · Executive Producer · Producer

2022

4.5

TV

Black Panthers

Director

2020

4.0

Movie

Sound of the Police

Director · Producer

2023

3.5

Movie

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business

Director · Producer

2019

3.0

TV

Hollywood Black

Self

2024

1.0

Movie

Critical Condition: Health in Black America

Director

2025

1.0

Movie

San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood

Director

2024

Movie

The Inquisitor

Executive Producer

2025

Movie

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

Executive Producer

2026

Movie

Picket Line

Executive Producer

2017

Movie

Hazing

Executive Producer

2022

Movie

Bulls and Saints

Executive Producer

2023

Movie

Black Memorabilia

Script Supervisor

2018

Movie

Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology

Executive Producer

2023

Movie

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

Executive Producer

2008

Lani B. Supreme: Legacy

Executive Producer

2025

Movie

Sydney G. James: How We See Us

Executive Producer

2023

Movie

Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect

Executive Producer

2025

Movie

The Story of Access

Director

2018

Movie

American Carnage

Executive Producer

2017

Movie

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

Director

2012

Movie

Free for All: The Public Library

Executive Producer

2025

Movie

Sister Úna Lived a Good Death

Executive Producer

2024

Movie

Frederick Douglass: An American Life

Sound Recordist

1985

Movie

Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise

Director

2004

Movie

Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)

Sound · Assistant Editor

1976

Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide

Writer

1981

Movie

Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker

Director · Editor · Researcher · Producer

1987