Sam Pollard Movies

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters...

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference...

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop,...

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he...

Chasing women for the weekend at a luxurious Miami resort, teen buddies Ben and Jack get more than they bargained for after crossing paths with a...

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four...

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

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who...

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, while its detractors accused it of promoting...

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind...

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

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

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976...

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...

The untold story of the man and the musician who made an immense cultural impact across just a few short years. Having gained exclusive rights to a...

Follows the life and career of Arthur Ashe.

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

For a decade, Dwayne Wade intimately documented his life and career with a film crew. The result is a remarkably candid portrait of one of the...