List of the best Stanley Nelson movies: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple(2006), Wounded Knee(2009), The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution(2015), Freedom Summer(2014), Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities(2017), Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool(2019) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2006
85 Minutes
Director
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Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
Drama, History
USA
2009
74 Minutes
Director
On the night of February 27, 1973, a caravan of cars carrying 200 armed Oglala Lakota-led by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists-entered Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation and ... See full summary »
Documentary, Drama, History
USA
2015
114 Minutes
Director
Blair Anderson Omar Barbour Julian Bond Elaine Brown Scot Brown
This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.
Documentary
USA
2014
113 Minutes
Director
A look back at the summer of 1964, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm, registering voters, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Drama, Documentary, History
USA
2017
85 Minutes
Director
A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries-and path of promise toward the American dream-Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements ... See full summary »
Documentary, Music
2019
115 Minutes
Director