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# A Tribute to a Filmmaker Who’s Chronicled Black Life, From Civil Rights to Post-Katrina New Orleans
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sam-pollard-film-at-lincoln-center/
- Published: 2021-01-12T17:50:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:42:30.000Z
- Description: Film at Lincoln Center is presenting works by editor, producer, director, and professor Sam Pollard.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Documentary, Events, Film at Lincoln Center, Sam Pollard, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

[Sam Pollard](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689498/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is one of the most overlooked cinematic multihyphenates in the US. An editor, producer, director, and professor active for more than four decades, he's played a huge role in chronicling Black US life through both his own work and his collaborations with filmmakers like Spike Lee. His newest film, [*MLK/FBI*](https://hyperallergic.com/588643/mlk-fbi-enemies-of-the-state-tiff-documentaries/), is a bracing look at how the government and intelligence community monitored and harangued Martin Luther King Jr. for years. To mark the occasion, [Film at Lincoln Center](https://www.filmlinc.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has put together [a tribute to Pollard](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/page/tribute-to-sam-pollard/?ref=hyperallergic.com), streaming several of his works starting this week.

The centerpiece of the program is [*When the Levees Broke*](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/tv/when-the-levees-broke/1?ref=hyperallergic.com), Spike Lee's 2006 miniseries on a devastated New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which Pollard produced and edited. It also includes three documentaries directed by Pollard himself: [*Maynard*](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/maynard/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (about Maynard Holbrook Jackson, the first Black mayor of Atlanta), [*Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me*](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/sammy-davis-jr-ive-gotta-be-me/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (a biography of the beloved entertainer), *August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand* (on the celebrated playwright), and [*Two Trains Runnin'*](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/two-trains-runnin/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (about activists and musicians who traveled to Mississippi in the summer of 1964).

*August Wilson* is free to stream, and the other individual titles in the program can be rented for $10 each. The four films are available [bundled together for $15](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/bundle/sam-pollard-four-film-bundle/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

**When:** January 15-22  
**Where:** Online

*More info at the* [*Film at Lincoln Center website*](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/page/tribute-to-sam-pollard/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*