
Actor
Stanley Nelson
Filmography

The Color of Cola
2026
Director

Critical Condition: Health in Black America
2025
Director

We Want the Funk!
2025
Director

Hollywood Black
2024
Actor

San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
2024
Director

Sound of the Police
2023
Director

Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022
Director

Attica
2021
Director · Writer

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Director

Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
2021
Director

Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
2021
Director

Black Panthers
2020
Director

Vick
2020
Director

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
Director

BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019
Director

The Story of Access
2018
Director

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2017
Director · Writer

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015
Director · Writer

Freedom Summer
2014
Director · Writer

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Director

Jesse Owens
2012
Writer

Freedom Riders
2010
Director · Writer

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006
Director

Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
2004
Director

A Place of Our Own
2004
Director · Writer · Actor

The Murder of Emmett Till
2003
Director

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
2001
Director

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1999
Director · Writer

Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
1987
Director

Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide
1981
Writer