Sam Pollard

In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a “reverse Great Migration” of African Americans from the North back to the South to upend today’s political power structures while reclaiming the land and culture they left behind. South to Black Power does more than illustrate Blow’s enlightening ideas; we journey through Blow’s personal story, from his childhood in Louisiana to his role as father to young adult children in New York City, showing us the hard-won truths behind his vision for the future.

Lift shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young homeless and home-insecure ballet dancers in New York City and the mentor that inspires them.

Follows Santana's journey from 14-year-old street musician to a 10-time Grammy winning global sensation. Features unseen archival footage and tracks.

Unpacks the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking by examining well-known documentaries of the past decade, and revealing the impact their commercial success has had on the lives of the onscreen subjects.

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades of secret FBI service revealed only after his death. Was he a friend of the civil rights community, or enemy—or both?

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined, while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement.

Follows the life and career of Arthur Ashe.

In 1973, four young African-American men stealing guns for self-defense in Brooklyn were cornered by the NYPD. A violent gun battle killed a police officer, beginning the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. The NYPD’s 130-year-old policy was to deliver an ultimatum, then respond with deadly force. Could visionary police psychologist Harvey Schlossberg convince his superiors to do the unthinkable – negotiate with “criminals” – and save twelve hostages from an impending bloodbath? In never-before-seen film and gripping interviews with survivors, HOLD YOUR FIRE uncovers what really happened in this landmark event with the potential to revolutionize American policing.

A Crime on the Bayou is the story of Gary Duncan, a Black teenager from Plaquemines Parish, a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. In 1966, Duncan tries to break up an argument between white and Black teenagers outside a newly integrated school. He gently lays his hand on a white boy’s arm. The boy recoils like a snake. That night, police burst into Duncan’s trailer and arrest him for assault on a minor. A young Jewish attorney, Richard Sobol, leaves his prestigious D.C. firm to volunteer in New Orleans. With his help, Duncan bravely stands up to a racist legal system powered by a white supremacist boss to challenge his unfair arrest. Their fight goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and their lifelong friendship is forged.

A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama's final year in office through the present.

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dwyane Wade's upcoming documentary provides a look at the highs and lows of the NBA superstar's life and career.

The historical ties between Black and Jewish Americans began long before the Civil Rights era. Shared Legacies explores this significant alliance, sharing eyewitness accounts, interviews with civil rights leaders, including the late U.S. Representative John Lewis, and a treasure trove of archival footage. The film is a tribute to the pursuit of what Dr. King called a "coalition of conscience" and a celebration of partnership, as well as an urgent call to action for today.

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto the national television stage. He was hip. He was smart. He was innovative, political, and gay. In his personal fight for social equality, this man ensured the Revolution would be televised. The man was Ellis Haizlip. The Revolution was soul!

Director Sam Pollard constructs a portrait of charismatic trailblazer Maynard Jackson, who became Atlanta’s first black mayor in 1973. The son of pastors raised in the segregated South, Jackson entered college at 14 and took office at 35. During his three-term tenure, he led the city through the traumatic Atlanta child murders scare and triumphantly hosted the 1996 Olympics, all while championing racial equality. Family and colleagues, including Bill Clinton, Andrew Young and Al Sharpton, tell the epic story of a dynamic leader and his legacy of honor and progress.

Director Sam Pollard constructs a portrait of charismatic trailblazer Maynard Jackson, who became Atlanta’s first black mayor in 1973. The son of pastors raised in the segregated South, Jackson entered college at 14 and took office at 35. During his three-term tenure, he led the city through the traumatic Atlanta child murders scare and triumphantly hosted the 1996 Olympics, all while championing racial equality. Family and colleagues, including Bill Clinton, Andrew Young and Al Sharpton, tell the epic story of a dynamic leader and his legacy of honor and progress.

Jamario, Jaquan, Jailen, and Teague are teammates on the J.O. Johnson High School wrestling team in Huntsville, Alabama. Led by their passionate coach, they are trying to qualify for the State Championships but the pressures outside of the ring – emotional breakdowns, racial profiling by the police, teenage pregnancy – are mounting for each of the young men.

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, while its detractors accused it of promoting the worst of liberal policies. Riding high on the momentum of Barack Obama’s presidential victory in 2008, ACORN was at its political zenith when a hidden-camera video sparked a national scandal and brought it crashing down. The story involves voter fraud, a fake prostitute, and the rise of Breitbart.com.

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, while its detractors accused it of promoting the worst of liberal policies. Riding high on the momentum of Barack Obama’s presidential victory in 2008, ACORN was at its political zenith when a hidden-camera video sparked a national scandal and brought it crashing down. The story involves voter fraud, a fake prostitute, and the rise of Breitbart.com.

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, while its detractors accused it of promoting the worst of liberal policies. Riding high on the momentum of Barack Obama’s presidential victory in 2008, ACORN was at its political zenith when a hidden-camera video sparked a national scandal and brought it crashing down. The story involves voter fraud, a fake prostitute, and the rise of Breitbart.com.

A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and-dance man.

Documentary about the increasingly necessary conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.

The search of several young, white men for blues singers who have been missing for decades coincides with the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s.

Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chronicling a century of African-American life. Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.

Amid the nation’s ongoing debate over health care reform, this bracing new documentary examines the everyday realities of Americans who lack access to affordable medical treatment. Filmed during three days in the operation of a “no-cost” clinic set up annually at Bristol, Tennessee’s NASCAR speedway, Remote Area Medical documents the range of medical care the eponymous organization provides to low-income patients in the heart of Appalachia.

Venus and Serena takes an honest and unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of sisters and tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams. Through the prism of one year in their lives, the film tells the untold story of how these two great stars came to be and how they struggle to stay on top.

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.

폐지 이후에도 관습을 핑계로 여전히 이어져온 미국 노예제도의 여러 모습을 재고한다.

Gerrymandering is a 2010 documentary feature film written and directed by Jeff Reichert. The film explores the history and the ethical, moral and racial problems raised by redistricting, i.e., the drawing of boundaries of electoral districts in the United States.Gerrymandering covers the history of the redistricting practice, how it is used and abused, how it benefits the two major major political parties, Democrats and Republicans. The documentary draws on the perspectives from different individuals, reporters, pundits and politicians.

Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants.

Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.

When Marvin Gaye died in 1984, he left behind one of the great legacies in American music. More than a superb vocalist and subtle composer, he was a visionary who expressed the tenor of his times. Both radical and romantic, a self-taught singer with a flair for autobiographical revelation, he thrived on confession and loved candor.

When Marvin Gaye died in 1984, he left behind one of the great legacies in American music. More than a superb vocalist and subtle composer, he was a visionary who expressed the tenor of his times. Both radical and romantic, a self-taught singer with a flair for autobiographical revelation, he thrived on confession and loved candor.

Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.

John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others’ lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw itself. It was a relationship that reflected all the elements and all the paradoxes of 20th century America — generosity of spirit, abuse of power, a sense of loyalty, and a restless nationalism that didn’t quite know what to do with itself.

평범한 일상이 흘러가는 도심, 월 스트리트에 위치한 한 은행이 정체를 알 수 없는 무장 강도에 의해 순식간에 점령 당하는 사건이 발생한다. 범인과 인질이 누구인지, 몇 명인지조차 드러나지 않는 혼란한 상황 속에 경찰들은 현장을 포위하고 유능한 협상가 키스 프레이저 를 투입한다. 그러나 은행을 점령하고 모든 계획을 지휘하는 우두머리 달튼 러셀 은 인질들에게 자신과 같은 옷을 입히고 마스크를 씌워 범인과 인질의 구분을 없애며 혼란을 가중시키고…

In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.

Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film delves into his life—past, present and future—focusing on his athletic career, acting and activism. Many people from Hollywood and sports backgrounds were interviewed for the film. Members of Brown's family were also interviewed for the film.

This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades. Exploring the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950s and the 1960s, it presents first hand accounts of seven men and women's experiences of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation in America.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry.

An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician and filmmaker.

텔레비전 업계의 신랄한 풍자가인 다크는 메이저 방송사의 명문대 출생 흑인 작가가 되기 위해 노력한다. "코스비 쇼"식의 흑인 가정물 아이디어가 방송사 거물에 의해 좌절되자 다크는 흑인으로 분장한 백인의 쇼라는 기이한 계획을 고안해 낸다. 실은 백인 배우 대신 흑인 배우들이 더 까만 분장을 하고 연기하는 것이지만...쇼는 단시간에 큰 성공을 거두고...

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.

헐리우드 스타를 꿈꾸는 흑인 여성 주디(테레사 랜들 분)는 영화 오디션마다 번번히 떨어진다. 그것은 이번에도 마찬가지. 음흉해 보이는 감독(타란티노)이 그녀에게 상의를 벗으라고 요구하자 그녀는 배우가 되겠다는 꿈을 포기하고 생활비를 마련하기 위해 직장을 찾아나선다. 거리에서 전단을 뿌리는 등의 아르바이트를 하다 결국 좌절한 주디는 폰 섹스업계로 진출한다. 타인의 환상을 채워준다는 점에서 배우와 다를 바 없다는 생각으로 주디는 6번 아가씨가 되어 전화를 통해 뭇남성을 신음하게 만든다. 뛰어난 연기와 재능으로 얼마되지 않아 다른 동료들을 물리치고 최다의 고객을 확보하게 된 주디. 때로는 에이프릴로 때로는 에스메랄다로 자신의 정체를 바꿔가면서 취향도 다양한 남성들의 대리욕구를 충족시켜 나간다. 한편 같은 아파트의 옆집에 사는 그녀의 남자친구 지미(스파이크 리 분)는 그녀가 그런 직업에 만족하고 영화배우의 꿈을 포기한 것을 질타하며 그녀에게 계속 따끔한 충고를 하고 전남편은 그녀의 섹시한 변화에 놀라며 다시 그녀와 합치게 되길 바란다. 하루하루 능숙한 서비스를 하던 주디는 점차 자신이 하고 있는 일에 대해 가치관의 혼란을 갖게 되고 실의에 빠지게 된다. 배우로서의 능력에 대한 자신감이 생긴 그녀는 자신의 인생을 다시한번 새출발할 것을 결심하는데.

거리에서 마약을 몰래 파는 19세의 소년 스트라이크. 그는 동네 마약 갱단의 두목인 로드니 리틀에게 충성을 증명하기 위해 다른 마약상 대릴을 죽이라는 명령을 받는다. 그를 죽이기로 한 날 밤, 스트라이크는 용기를 얻기 위해 술집으로 갔다가 형 빅터를 만나 술에 취한 형에게 자신의 살인 계획을 틸어놓고 대릴을 죽이기 위해 나선다. 잠시 후 경찰이 출동하고 네 발의 총을 맞고 쓰러진 대릴의 시체가 옮겨진다. 편집광적인 강력계 형사 로코는 스트라이크를 범인으로 지목하여 그의 뒤를 추적하기 시작하고, 스트라이크를 내논 자식으로 여기는 어머니와 동네의 어느 누구도 그의 편을 들어주려 하지 않는다. 또한 대릴에게 살인을 명령했던 리틀마저 스트라이크의 입을 막기 위해 음모를 꾸미게 되는데...

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.

Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation’s history, the neighborhood rose from the ashes, and by 1936 boasted the largest concentration of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., known as “Black Wall Street.” Ironically, it could not survive the progressive policies of integration and urban renewal of the 1960s. Told through the memories of those who lived through the events, the film is a bittersweet celebration of small-town life and the resilience of a community’s spirit.

Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation’s history, the neighborhood rose from the ashes, and by 1936 boasted the largest concentration of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., known as “Black Wall Street.” Ironically, it could not survive the progressive policies of integration and urban renewal of the 1960s. Told through the memories of those who lived through the events, the film is a bittersweet celebration of small-town life and the resilience of a community’s spirit.

이 영화는 고등학생에 대한 이야기이지만 가벼운 로맨스나 호러, 액션 소재의 킬링 타임용이 아니다. 어른 혹은 사회를 향해 무분별한 총기 소지에 대해 직간접적인 질문을 던지는 사회 비판 영화이다. 나아지지 않는 흑인의 삶, 가난을 대물림 받은 어린 학생들이 범죄에 손대고 한탕주의에 젖어 무분별한 총 난사를 하는 것이 과연 젊은이들만의 잘못이며 책임인가 되짚어 보지 않을 수가 없다. Ernest R. Dickerson (어니스트 R. 딕커슨) 감독의 스크린 데뷔작이며, 10대에 범죄를 저지른 학생들에 대해 무척이나 객관적인 시야를 유지한다. 힙합 뮤지션인 2pac이 악역을 맡아서 화제가 된 바 있다. 영화 Juice [돌아온 이탈자 2] OST는 92년 빌보드 앨범 차트 17위까지 올랐으며, Aaron Hall이 부른 Don't Be Afraid는 R&B/Hip-Hop 싱글 차트에서 1위, Eric B. & Rakim이 부른 Juice (know The Ledge)는 Rap 싱글 차트 7위/빌보드 싱글 차트 96위까지 올랐다.

금슬 좋고 가정에 충실하며, 인정받는 중견 흑인 건축가 플리퍼(웨슬리 스나입스 분), 그는 흑인으로서의 자부심을 가지고 살아가지만 유색 인종으로서의 콤플렉스가 잠재해 있어 백인 여성에 대한 호기심을 떨쳐 버리지 못한다. 그러던 어느 날 우연한 기회에 이태리계 여비서 앤지(애너벨라 쉬오라 분)와 혼외정사를 갖게 되고 이로 인하여 백인계 회사에서의 처세가 어렵게 되자 자의반 타의반으로 회사를 그만두고 독립을 꿈꾼다. 한편, 이태리 빈민가의 하층 생활에 염증을 느끼던 앤지는 플리퍼와의 관계를 친구들에게 고백하지만 유색인종에 대한 혐오감을 갖고 있는 친구들은 경악한다. 이 사실을 알게 된 앤지의 가족들 역시 앤지를 구타 하면서 집에서 내쫓는다. 졸지에 거리로 쫓겨난 이들은 일시적으로 동거를 하게 되나, 사회 도처, 가는 곳곳마다 받게 되는 경멸과 혐오, 그리고 원초적인 피부색의 차이에서 오는 갈등을 극복하지 못하고 끝내는 본래의 위치로 돌아가게 된다.

어린 시절부터 어머니의 강요로 트럼펫을 불던 블릭(Bleek Gilliam : 덴젤 워싱턴 분)은 성장하여 재능있는 연주인이 되고 음악만이 생애 최고의 목표였던 그는 연주악단을 구성, 활동하며 음악외의 어느 것에도 관심을 두지 않는다. 그러나 절정의 인기를 누리던 블릭 악단은 매니저인 자이언트의 상습 도박으로 인해 곤경에 처하게 된다. 점점 거세지는 도박단의 협박, 그리고 집단 폭행으로 인해 블릭은 심한 부상을 당하고 그 후유증으로 연주 활동을 포기하게 된다.

One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair Bourne as “a narrative performance documentary,” this category-defiant film on the life of poet and writer Hughes and the times in which he lived and worked moves from America to Senegal to Paris, from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the Black Pride awakening of the 1960s.

잭과 벤은 회원만이 갈 수 있는 리조트로 주말 휴가를 떠난다. 근사한 여자와의 멋진 데이트를 꿈꾸며 갔지만 생각만큼 순조롭게 일이 풀리지는 않는다. 우연히 섹시한 바비 수의 방 열쇠를 얻게 되면서 바비 수의 남편이자 롤링스 부인의 다이아몬드 목걸이를 훔치기 위해 리조트에 온 마에스트로와 악연을 맺게 되고 그 뒤부터 불안한 리조트 생활이 시작된다. 그 와중에 잭은 롤링스 부인의 손녀인 데이나에게 반해 접근하게 되고 벤은 리조트 웨이트리스인 패티에게 반한다. 우여곡절 끝에 잭과 데이나, 벤과 패티는 서로의 사랑을 확인하게 되고 롤링스 부인도 잃어버린 목걸이를 찾게 되고 마에스트로도 경찰에 체포되면서 영화는 끝이 난다.

스타일워는 1983년에 만들어진 다큐멘터리 필름이다. 시기가 시기인 만큼 힙합이 처음 생겨난 직후 문화적으로 여러 분야가 구축되고 하나의 ‘현상’을 넘어서는 과정을 보여주고 있다. 그래피티가 많은 부분을 차지하면서도 그래피티가 디제잉이나 래핑, 비보잉과 어떠한 연결고리를 지니는지도 놓치지 않는다. 당대 내로라하는 그래피티아티스트가 총출동했고 당시의 유행도 간접경험해볼 수 있다. 그래피티에 대한 존중을 담은, 힙합 초창기의 선구적인 작품이다.

A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.

Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA special-agent Nick Monroe is sent to flush out what are suspected to be deserters from the old U.S. Army Chemical Corps unit. Not to be confused with the 1980 Italian film of the same name (in USA).

Biography: Ol’ Dirty Bastard presents viewers with the untold story of the man and the musician who made an immense cultural impact across just a few short years. Having gained exclusive rights to a never-before-seen personal archive shot by his wife alongside access to his closest friends and family, the doc is described by the filmmakers as a culture-defining special that humanizes ODB as a man, a father and a husband like never before.