The BEST episodes directed by Sam Pollard
#1 - Eyes on the Prize II (1): The Time Has Come (1964-1966)
American Experience - Season 20 - Episode 3
Examines a lead member of the Nation of Islam - Malcolm X. It also chronicles the political organizing work of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama and the shooting of James Meredith during the March Against Fear.
#2 - Eyes on the Prize II (5): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More (1964-1972)
American Experience - Season 20 - Episode 8
Chronicles the emergence of boxer Muhammad Ali, the student movement at Howard University, and the gathering of the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana.
#3 - Slavery by Another Name
PBS Specials - Season 2012 - Episode 3
Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II.
#4 - Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
American Masters - Season 22 - Episode 2
A recounting of the versatile and controversial work of one of the most flamboyant African-American writers from the first half of the 20th century.