Stanley Nelson

7.5

Movie

Freedom Riders

Writer · Director · Producer

2010

7.5

TV

30 for 30

Director

2009

7.1

Movie

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Director · Producer

2019

7.1

Movie

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Director

2006

7.0

Movie

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Director · Writer · Producer

2015

6.9

Movie

Crack: Cocaína, corrupción y conspiración

Director

2021

6.9

Movie

Attica

Director · Writer · Producer

2021

6.5

TV

American Experience

Writer · Producer

1988

6.3

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

8.5

Movie

Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom

Director

2021

8.1

Movie

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

Director · Producer · Screenplay

2017

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

Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

Executive Producer

2021

8.0

TV

Black Panthers

Director

2020

8.0

Movie

Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre

Director

2021

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

Vick

Director

2020

6.7

Movie

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

Producer · Director · Writer

1999

6.5

Movie

Becoming Frederick Douglass

Director · Executive Producer · Producer

2022

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

Disco's Revenge

Executive Producer

2024

6.0

Movie

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business

Director · Producer

2019

6.0

Movie

True North

Executive Producer

2025

5.5

Movie

Sound of the Police

Director · Producer

2023

5.0

TV

Hollywood Black

Self

2024

5.0

Movie

Gavin Grimm vs.

Executive Producer

2017

Movie

Free for All: The Public Library

Executive Producer

2025

Movie

Frederick Douglass: An American Life

Sound Recordist

1985

Movie

San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood

Director

2024

Movie

The Inquisitor

Executive Producer

2025

Movie

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

Executive Producer

2008

Movie

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

Director

2012

Movie

Sister Úna Lived a Good Death

Executive Producer

2024

Movie

Picket Line

Executive Producer

2017

Movie

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

Executive Producer

2026

Movie

Black Memorabilia

Script Supervisor

2018

Movie

The Story of Access

Director

2018

Movie

Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology

Executive Producer

2023

Movie

Hazing

Executive Producer

2022

Movie

Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise

Director

2004

Movie

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

Director · Editor · Researcher · Producer

1987

Movie

Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect

Executive Producer

2025

Movie

Sydney G. James: How We See Us

Executive Producer

2023

Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide

Writer

1981

Movie

Bulls and Saints

Executive Producer

2023

Movie

American Carnage

Executive Producer

2017

Movie

Critical Condition: Health in Black America

Director

2025

Movie

Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barbershops)

Sound · Assistant Editor

1976