Sam Pollard Movies

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...

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

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

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having...

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

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

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

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

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...

In The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland,...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their...

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

Jamario, Jaquan, Jailen, and Teague are teammates on the J.O. Johnson High School wrestling team in Huntsville, Alabama. Led by their passionate...

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

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