Rick Rowley
- Known for
- 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
Filmography
Hell's Army 2026
Director, Producer
Critical Incident: Death at the Border 2025
Director, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
Michael Flynn's Holy War 2022
Director
Plot to Overturn the Election 2022
Director of Photography
American Insurrection 2021
Director of Photography, Director, Writer
Kingdom of Silence 2020
Director
Rejectors 2019
Director of Photography
Documenting Hate: New American Nazis 2018
Director
Documenting Hate: Charlottesville 2018
Director
16 Shots 2018
Director, Writer, Cinematography
American Patriot: Inside the Armed Uprising Against the Federal Government 2017
Director
Where to Invade Next 2015
Director of Photography
Terror in Little Saigon 2015
Director, Writer, Producer
Dirty Wars 2013
Director
Big Noise Dispatches: Vol. 06 2010
Producer, Cinematography
The War of 33: Letters from Beirut 2008
Director
Deserter 2007
Director, Cinematography
- I Know I’m Not Alone
I Know I’m Not Alone 2005
Cinematography
The Fourth World War 2003
Producer, Director
Black & Gold 2001
Director
This Is What Democracy Looks Like 2000
Producer, Director, Editor
Zapatista 1999
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Credits from TMDB.