a Lifetime Achievement Award from the News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Nelson is Executive Director and co-founder of Firelight Media with his wife, writer and producer Marcia Smith, a nonprofit that provides technical education and professional support to emerging documentarians. The organization received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2015. He is co-founder of Firelight Films, the for-profit documentary production company. Filmography Freedom Bags (1990) Schools for A New Society (1993) Puerto Rico: A Right to Choose (1994) The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1998) Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind (2000) Running the Campaign for City Council (2002) The Murder of Emmett Till (2003) A Place of Our Own (2004) Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise (2004) Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (2005) Faces of Change (2005) Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) CNN Presents High Stakes (2006) We Shall Remain (Part 5) - "Wounded Knee" (2009) Immigration Part 1: Battleground Arizona (2009) Immigration Part II: Raid in New Bedford (2009) Immigration Part III: Guest Workers in the Gulf (2009) Arise: the Battle over Affirmative Action (2010) Freedom Riders (2010) Freedom Summer (2014) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017) Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) Boss: The Black Experience in Business (2019) Vick (2020) Attica (2021) References External links Freedom Riders, Online PBS Charlie Rose interview 1951 births Living people Film directors from New York City American documentary film directors African-American film directors MacArthur Fellows Emmy Award winners PBS people National Humanities Medal recipients Beloit College alumni City College of New York alumni 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American people