Director
Rick Rowley
21 films
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
Best known for
Filmography 21
Hell's Army
2026 · Director, Producer
Critical Incident: Death at the Border
2025 · Director, Cinematography
On HBO Max
Michael Flynn's Holy War
2022 · Director
On Kanopy
Plot to Overturn the Election
2022 · Cinematography
On Kanopy
American Insurrection
2021 · Cinematography, Director
On Kanopy
Kingdom of Silence
2020 · Director
On fuboTV
Rejectors
2019 · Cinematography
Documenting Hate: New American Nazis
2018 · Director
On PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel
Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
2018 · Director
16 Shots
2018 · Director, Writer
On fuboTV
American Patriot: Inside the Armed Uprising Against the Federal Government
2017 · Director
Where to Invade Next
2015 · Cinematography
On Tubi TV
Terror in Little Saigon
2015 · Director, Writer
On PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel
Dirty Wars
2013 · Director
On AMC+
Big Noise Dispatches: Vol. 06
2010 · Producer
The War of 33: Letters from Beirut
2008 · Director
On Kanopy
Deserter
2007 · Director
On Fandor Amazon Channel
The Fourth World War
2003 · Producer, Director
On Kanopy
Black & Gold
2001 · Director
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
2000 · Producer, Director
On Philo
Zapatista
1999 · Director, Cinematography
On Philo