9.2
9.2
We Want the Funk!
2025
Director
Stanley Nelson
Also known as: Stanley Nelson
Directing
Born:July 7, 1955(age 71)
Birthplace:New York City, New York, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:City College of New York, Beloit College, New Lincoln School
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CommunityBiography
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 Voice (2005), A Place of Our Own (2004), The Murder of Emmett Till (2003), and The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (1998).
Filmography (44 movies)
8.5
8.5
After Jackie
2022
Producer
8.5
8.5
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
2021
Director
8.1
8.1
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2017
Producer
8.0
8.0
Jesse Owens
2012
Producer
8.0
8.0
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2021
Executive Producer
8.0
8.0
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015
Executive Producer
7.6
7.6
Freedom Riders
2010
Director
7.3
7.3
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
2021
Director
7.2
7.2
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
Director
7.2
7.2
Freedom Summer
2014
Writer
7.1
7.1
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006
Director
7.0
7.0
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015
Writer
6.9
6.9
Attica
2021
Producer
6.8
6.8
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Director
6.8
6.8
The Murder of Emmett Till
2003
Director
6.8
6.8
Vick
2020
Director
6.5
6.5
Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
2023
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
True North
2025
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019
Director
5.5
5.5
Sound of the Police
2023
Producer
5.0
5.0
Gavin Grimm vs.
2017
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1999
Director
A Place of Our Own
2004
Writer
Bulls and Saints
2023
Executive Producer
The Story of Access
2018
Director
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
2004
Director
Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide
1981
Writer
Free for All: The Public Library
2025
Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
2023
Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
2023
Executive Producer
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
2024
Executive Producer
San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
2024
Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Director
The Inquisitor
2025
Executive Producer
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
2025
Executive Producer
Critical Condition: Health in Black America
2025
Director
Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
1987
Director
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
2008
Executive Producer
Hazing
2022
Executive Producer
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
2001
Director
Picket Line
2017
Executive Producer
American Carnage
2017
Executive Producer
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