Rick Rowley
Directing
Richard (Rick) Rowley is a documentary filmmaker. His films and TV shows have received three Emmy awards, an Oscar nomination, and other awards and nominations, as well as recognition at film festivals around the world. Rowley's Oscar-nominated feature Dirty Wars was the culmination of ten years as a war reporter in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the lesser-known battlegrounds of the US war on terror. Since then, Rowley has turned his lens on racial injustice in the US. His 2019 feature for Showtime, 16 Shots, won Television Academy honors and a Peabody nomination for its unflinching look at the police murder of Laquan McDonald and the cover-up that followed. His Emmy-winning series Documenting Hate unmasked an underground Nazi fight club and a terrorist cell. The series received a DuPont Award and prompted an FBI investigation that led to dozens of arrests. His latest film, Kingdom Of Silence, is the story of the life and death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Behind the camera
2026Hell's Army
Director
2025Critical Incident: Death at the Border
Director & Writer
2022Michael Flynn's Holy War
Director
2021American Insurrection
Director & Writer
2020Kingdom of Silence
Director
201816 Shots
Director & Writer
2018Documenting Hate: New American Nazis
Director
2018Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
Director
2017American Patriot: Inside the Armed Uprising Against the Federal Government
Director
2013Dirty Wars
Director
2008The War of 33: Letters from Beirut
Director
2007Deserter
Director
2003The Fourth World War
Director
2001Black & Gold
Director
2000This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Director
1999Zapatista
Director