Sam Pollard Movies

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

Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle...

Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s...

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

The triumphs and challenges of Negro League baseball in the early 20th century. Through rare footage and interviews with iconic players like Satchel...

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent...

Folkways: A Vision Shared--A Tribute To Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly pays stunning tribute to two legends of folk and blues. Narrated by Robbie...

Follows the life and career of Arthur Ashe.

Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum...

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,...

The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from...

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

It’s easy, in 2025, to despair that any film might course-correct our everquickening descent towards climate disaster. And yet, climate change...

The historical ties between Black and Jewish Americans began long before the Civil Rights era. Shared Legacies explores this significant alliance,...

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

John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others’ lives, changed the...

A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North...

Documentarian Jeffrey Morgan set out to the track one woman's search for the truth about her great-great-aunt's 1908 murder. But his film quickly...

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