Person
Nicole London
Production
Biography
Nicole London (Director, Producer) is an Emmy® Award-winning and GRAMMY® -nominated producer and director who began her career as an associate producer at PBS's To The Contrary and local stations in Maryland and has gone on to work on many projects with the top directors in documentary film. She was an associate producer for AMERICAN MASTERS Marvin Gaye: What's Going On; Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me; POV's American Promise; and INDEPENDENT LENS' The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, which was nominated for a 2016 Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking Emmy. She served as a producer on Life & Life and Netflix's Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy, directed by Stanley Nelson. She was also the producer for Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, for which she was nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY for Best Music Film, and which won the 2021 News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary. In 2021, she was honored as a Trailblazer at the 22nd Annual African American Women In Cinema Film Festival. She is currently directing a new project for AMERICAN MASTERS slated for 2023
Known for

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Producer

Becoming Frederick Douglass
Director

We Want the Funk!
Director

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Assistant Editor

Slavery and the Law
Production Coordinator

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Producer

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Associate Producer

Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
Director

The Disappearance of Miss Scott
Director

The War on Disco
Producer
Filmography
- 2025We Want the Funk!Director
- 2025The Disappearance of Miss ScottDirector
- 2023The War on DiscoProducer
- 2022Becoming Frederick DouglassDirector
- 2021Harriet Tubman: Visions of FreedomDirector
- 2021Life & LifeProducer
- 2021Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & ConspiracyProducer
- 2019Miles Davis: Birth of the CoolProducer
- 2015The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the RevolutionAssociate Producer
- 2011Slavery and the LawProduction Coordinator
- 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereAssistant Editor
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