Stanley Nelson
Director · 26 credits · 7 in highly-rated films
Best known for Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
Frequent collaborators: Nicole London
Directed movies (25 total, ranked by score)
1Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
2006 · ★ 7.1 (88 votes)
Documentary, History, TV Movie
2Freedom Summer
2014 · ★ 7.2 (6 votes)
Documentary
3Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · ★ 6.8 (87 votes)
Documentary
4Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019 · ★ 7.1 (95 votes)
Documentary, History, Music
5Freedom Riders
2010 · ★ 7.6 (10 votes)
Documentary, History
6The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2015 · ★ 7.0 (61 votes)
Documentary
7Attica
2021 · ★ 6.9 (43 votes)
Documentary
8We Want the Funk!
2025 · ★ 6.1 (14 votes)
Documentary, Music
9Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
2001 · ★ 9.0 (2 votes)
Documentary
10BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
2019 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)
Documentary
11Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
2021 · ★ 6.0 (3 votes)
Documentary
12Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
2017 · ★ 8.1 (7 votes)
Documentary
13The Murder of Emmett Till
2003 · ★ 6.8 (5 votes)
Documentary
14Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
2004
Documentary
15A Place of Our Own
2004
Documentary
16Becoming Frederick Douglass
2022 · ★ 4.7 (3 votes)
Documentary
17The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1999 · ★ 5.0 (2 votes)
Documentary, History
18Vick
2020 · ★ 6.8 (4 votes)
Documentary
19Sound of the Police
2023 · ★ 5.5 (2 votes)
Documentary
20Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
2021 · ★ 7.3 (3 votes)
Documentary
21Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker
1987
Documentary
22The Story of Access
2018
Documentary
23Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
Documentary
24San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood
2024
Documentary
25Critical Condition: Health in Black America
2025
Documentary
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.