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name: "Sam Pollard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sam-pollard"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "20 April 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T08:30:49.859320+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Sam Pollard

Editor. Born 20 April 1945 in Harlem, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 20 April 1945, Harlem, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Samuel D. Pollard, Samuel Pollard
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pollard_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3471205, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689498/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18747

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Clockers*](https://film.one/film/clockers.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Samuel D. Pollard is an American film director, editor, producer and screenwriter. He began his career in 1972 as an editor after taking courses in a WNET workshop and obtained a BA from Baruch College in 1973. Early mentors included Victor Kanefsky and George Bowers.

Pollard has edited several feature films directed by Spike Lee, including *Clockers* (1995). He has directed documentaries for television series such as *American Experience*. His work includes the Academy Award-nominated *4 Little Girls* (1997), for which he received a nomination alongside Spike Lee. In 2020, the International Documentary Association gave him a career achievement award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, documentary.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Clockers* (1995), Fi1m 74, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/clockers.md)

## Complete filmography (95)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Full Circle: The First All Black Everest Ascent* (2026), Executive Producer
- *The Lorraine* (2026), Director
- *Tutu* (2026), Director
- *Natchez* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Teaching America* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Perfect Neighbor* (2025), Executive Producer
- *This Is Not a Drill* (2025), Consulting Producer
- *Katrina: Come Hell and High Water* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *I Was Born This Way* (2025), Director
- *Keeper* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys* (2024), Director, Producer, Supervising Editor
- *Black Table* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Photographer* (2024), series, Director
- *South to Black Power* (2023), Director
- *Carlos* (2023), Producer
- *LIFT* (2023), Executive Producer
- *The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools* (2023), Director, Producer
- *The League* (2023), Director
- *Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes* (2023), Producer, Director
- *Bill Russell: Legend* (2023), series, Director
- *Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power* (2022), Director
- *The Picture Taker* (2022), Editorial Consultant
- *Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities* (2022), Director
- *Hostages* (2022), series, Director
- *Outta the Muck* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Citizen Ashe* (2021), Director
- *Hold Your Fire* (2021), Consulting Producer
- *A Crime on the Bayou* (2021), Consulting Producer
- *Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Black Art: In the Absence of Light* (2021), Director, Producer
- *Tiger* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *MLK/FBI* (2020), Director
- *Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *D. Wade: Life Unexpected* (2020), Producer
- *Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance* (2020), Consulting Producer
- *Why We Hate* (2019), series, Director
- *Mr. SOUL!* (2018), Director
- *Wrestle* (2018), Consulting Producer
- *Maynard* (2017), Director, Writer
- *Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me* (2017), Director
- *Acorn and the Firestorm* (2017), Producer, Director, Writer
- *The Talk: Race in America* (2017), Director
- *Two Trains Runnin'* (2016), Director
- *August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand* (2015), Director
- *Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Remote Area Medical* (2013), Editor
- *Venus and Serena* (2012), Editor
- *Joe Papp in Five Acts* (2012), Editor
- *Slavery by Another Name* (2012), Director
- *Gerrymandering* (2010), Editor
- *If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise* (2010), series, Editor, Producer
- *Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV* (2010), Director
- *By the People: The Election of Barack Obama* (2009), Editor
- *Chinatown Film Project* (2009), Director
- *Love That Movie* (2009), Director, Writer
- *Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun* (2008), Director
- *Marvin Gaye: What's Going On* (2008), Writer, Director
- *Pete Seeger: The Power of Song* (2007), Editor
- *Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence* (2007), Editorial Consultant
- *John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend* (2006), Director
- *Inside Man* (2006), as Additional Editing
- *Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal* (2004), Editor
- *The Blues* (2003), series, Producer
- *The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow* (2002), series, Director, Producer, Writer
- *Jim Brown: All-American* (2002), Co-Producer
- *The Chinatown Files* (2001), Consulting Editor
- *The Making of 'Bamboozled'* (2001), Director, Producer
- *Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks* (2000), Editor
- *Bamboozled* (2000), Editor
- *Independent Lens* (1999), series, Director
- *I'll Make Me a World* (1999), series, Director
- *4 Little Girls* (1997), Editor, Producer
- *Girl 6* (1996), Editor
- *Clockers* (1995), Editor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/clockers.md)
- *Surviving the Game* (1994), Editor
- *Goin' Back to T-Town* (1993), Producer, Director
- *Juice* (1992), Editor
- *Jungle Fever* (1991), Editor
- *Mo' Better Blues* (1990), Editor
- *American Experience* (1988), series, Director
- *A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly* (1988), Editor
- *Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper* (1987), Editor
- *Eyes on the Prize* (1987), series, Director, Writer
- *American Masters* (1986), series, Director
- *Private Resort* (1985), Editor
- *Style Wars* (1984), Editor
- *Metropolitan Cats* (1983), Editor
- *Body and Soul* (1981), Editor
- *Night of the Zombies* (1981), Editor
- *Forever Young* (1981), Editor
- *The Little Players* (1981), Editor
- *Ganja & Hess* (1973), Assistant Editor
- *Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till*, Director
- *Counting The Ballots*, Director
- *The Sound of Philadelphia*, Director

## Gallery

- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Spike Lee, Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel May 23, 2011](https://film.one/media/person/1068784/gallery-0fa6a4a0575a.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Spike Lee, Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel May 23, 2011 — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Geeta_Gandbhir_at_the_70th_Peabody_Awards%2C_May_23%2C_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Sam Pollard](https://film.one/media/person/1068784/gallery-a7505975089b.jpg) Sam Pollard — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Samuel_D._Pollard%2C_Peabody_Awards_%28cropped%29%28rotated%29%28May_2011%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Spike Lee, Geeta Gondbhir and Sam Pollard 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel May 23, 2011](https://film.one/media/person/1068784/gallery-4b8cbaf3e562.jpg) PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Spike Lee, Geeta Gondbhir and Sam Pollard 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel May 23, 2011 — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Geeta_Gandbhir_at_the_Peabody_Awards%2C_May_2011_%283%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1998: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *4 Little Girls*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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