Stanley Nelson

1955 (71) • Directing

Born: 7/7/1955 (71) in New York City, New York, USA

Known for: Directing

Stanley Nelson

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.

Known For

The Daily Show

64%

Self

1996

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

71%

Director

2019

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

68%

Director

2021

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

70%

Director

2006

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

70%

Director

2015

30 for 30

75%

Director

2009

American Experience

65%

Producer

1988

Attica

68%

Director

2021

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

Executive Producer

2026

Lani B. Supreme: Legacy

Executive Producer

2025

Becoming Thurgood: America's Social Architect

Executive Producer

2025

True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power

65%

Executive Producer

2025

Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

63%

Executive Producer

2025

The Inquisitor

Executive Producer

2025

Critical Condition: Health in Black America

10%

Director

2025

Free for All: The Public Library

Executive Producer

2025

We Want the Funk!

63%

Director

2025

San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood

10%

Director

2024

Sister Úna Lived a Good Death

Executive Producer

2024

Disco's Revenge

70%

Executive Producer

2024

Bulls and Saints

Executive Producer

2023

Sound of the Police

40%

Director

2023

Sound of the Police

40%

Producer

2023

Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

65%

Executive Producer

2023

Sydney G. James: How We See Us

Executive Producer

2023

Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology

Executive Producer

2023

Becoming Frederick Douglass

47%

Director

2022

Becoming Frederick Douglass

47%

Producer

2022

Becoming Frederick Douglass

47%

Executive Producer

2022

After Jackie

85%

Producer

2022

Hazing

Executive Producer

2022

Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom

60%

Director

2021

Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

80%

Executive Producer

2021

Attica

68%

Director

2021

Attica

68%

Writer

2021

Attica

68%

Producer

2021