Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes profiles the life and work of the drummer who showed that his instrument could do more than keep a beat.
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Sam Pollard's documentary The League chronicles the history and heyday of the Negro Baseball League and its impact for Black athletes.
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Subject invites a who's who of the documentary field to consider questions of ethics, representation, and responsible storytelling in non-fiction.
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Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir chronicle the fight to mobilize Black voters in Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power.
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How Selwyn Jacob, Sylvia D. Hamilton, and Sam Pollard broke barriers in documentary production and continue to fight for change in the film industry.
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King and Hoover are long gone now. So are the Sixties. But Pollard’s lucidly intelligent MLK/FBI shows what happened then: a fatal situation in which a Black man confronted the white establishment.
Keep ReadingMr. SOUL! Dir. Sam Pollard & Melissa Haizlip USA, 102 minutes Special Presentations (International Premiere) Mr. SOUL! weaves together two stories; the development of SOUL! the television show, and the personal evolution
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Keep ReadingSammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (USA, 100 min.) Dir. Sam Pollard Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Sam Pollard, who directed Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, has an extensive
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