Founded by award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Firelight Films produces documentary films and develops strategies, partnerships, and materials to reach and engage diverse audiences.
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Firelight Films productions have garnered multiple Primetime Emmys, Peabodys, and Sundance awards. Among them, the Academy Award®-nominated Attica for Showtime; Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre for the HISTORY Channel; Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy for Netflix; and Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, and Freedom Riders, all for PBS. More recent Firelight Films productions include Becoming Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom for PBS and Sound of the Police for ABC News Studios/Hulu. WE WANT THE FUNK! premiered on Independent Lens in 2025 and is now streaming via PBS. Forthcoming projects include In Our Own Image: The Story of African American Art; Harlem: The Soul of the Nation; and Creating the New World, a four-part series, all for PBS.