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...

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,...

In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a...

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

The historical ties between Black and Jewish Americans began long before the Civil Rights era. Shared Legacies explores this significant alliance,...

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

Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle...

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a...

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to...

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

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...

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having...

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

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

A Crime on the Bayou is the story of Gary Duncan, a Black teenager from Plaquemines Parish, a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. In 1966,...

Follows the life and career of Arthur Ashe.

A minor disagreement between neighbors in Florida takes a lethal turn, with police body camera footage and interviews probing the aftermath of the...