List of the best Sam Pollard movies: Mr. Soul!(2018), Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me(2017), MLK/FBI(2020), Maynard(2017), ACORN and the Firestorm(2017), Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun(2008), Two Trains Runnin'(2016) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2018
90 Minutes
Director
Melissa Haizlip
Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised with "SOUL!," America's first "Black Tonight Show." From 1968 to 1973, the ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA|France
2017
100 Minutes
Director
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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
USA
2020
102 Minutes
Director
Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Documentary
USA
2017
101 Minutes
Director
Maynard Jackson Jr, became Atlanta's first black mayor in 1973. Raised in the segregated and confederate South, he became the Father of Affirmative Action and transformed ATL into a progressive and world class city.
Documentary
India|USA
2017
85 Minutes
Director
Reuben Atlas
A hidden-camera video involving a fake prostitute threatens to destroy ACORN, America's largest grassroots anti-poverty organization. World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival.
Documentary
2008
83 Minutes
Director
Kim Brockington Marceline Hugot Zora Neale Hurston
Documentary
2016
80 Minutes
Director
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In June of 1964, two groups of young men travel to Mississippi. Though neither group was aware of the other, each had come on the same errand: to find an old blues singer and coax him out of retirement.