Richard Rowley
Illustration — Rowley at the Emmys in 2026 Richard Rowley (also known as Rick Rowley) is a documentary filmmaker. His films and TV shows have received four 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 America's war on terror.
Richard Rowley
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- 1975
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- United States
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- film director · film editor · cinematographer · journalist · film producer · screenwriter
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Illustration — Rowley at the Emmys in 2026 Richard Rowley (also known as Rick Rowley) is a documentary filmmaker. His films and TV shows have received four 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 America's war on terror.
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Since then, Rowley has turned his lens on racial injustice in the United States. 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. Kingdom Of Silence, is the story of the life and death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Rick Rowley directed or co-directed these documentary films: • Zapatista (1999) – about the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico • This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) – about the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle • Black and Gold (2001) – about the Latin Kings in New York City • The Fourth World War (2003) – about resistance movements around the world • Dirty Wars (2013) – about the war on terror and the Joint Special Operations Command • The Blue Wall (2018) – about the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent events • 16 Shots (2019) – an updated and expanded version of The Blue Wall • Kingdom of Silence (2020) – about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi • American Insurrection (2021) – about the 2021 United States Capitol attack • Critical Incident: Death at the Border (2025) – about the death of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas • Hell's Army (2026) – about the Wagner Group
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• 2014 Academy Award Nomination – Best Documentary • 2013 Sundance Film Festival – Documentary Cinematography Award • 2022 Emmy Nominee – Outstanding Current Events Documentary • 2021 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Politics Documentary • 2020 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Investigative Documentary • 2019 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Investigative Documentary • 2020 Television Academy Honors Winner – Documentary • 2020 DuPont Columbia Award • 2022 DuPont Columbia Award • 2022 George Polk Award • 2022 Peabody Award • 2022 Edward R Murrow Award • 2023 Scripps Howard Award • 2025 Emmy Winner – Outstanding Investigative Documentary
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- 1.Fleischer, Victoria. Oscar-Nominated Dirty Wars Aims to Make a Covert War More 'Real'. PBS NewsHour. February 27, 2014.
- 2.Baumgarten, Marjorie. Zapatista. The Austin Chronicle. November 1, 2000.
- 3.Harvey, Dennis. This Is What Democracy Looks Like. Variety. December 14, 2000.
- 4.Deming, Mark. Black & Gold (1999). AllMovie.
- 5.Goodman, Amy. The Fourth World War: An Unembedded View of Global Resistance. Democracy Now. August 26, 2004.
- 6.DeNies, Ramona. Film Review: The Fourth World War: Nothing Subtle About It. The Portland Alliance. February 2004.
- 7.Osenlund, R. Kurt. Richard Rowley on Dirty Wars. Filmmaker Magazine. June 7, 2013.
- 8.Taylor, Ella. Covert Conflicts, Decried In 'Dirty Wars'. NPR. June 6, 2013.
- 9.Holden, Stephen. From the Front Lines, If You Can See Them. New York Times. June 6, 2013.
- 10.Boone, Steven. Dirty Wars. RogerEbert.com. June 13, 2013.
- 11.Zorn, Eric. Coming Soon: A Laquan McDonald Documentary That Makes the Story Even Worse. Chicago Tribune. May 4, 2018.
- 12.Wilner, Norman. Hot Docs review: The Blue Wall. Now Magazine. April 25, 2018.
- 13.Prince, C.J. Hot Docs 2018: The Blue Wall. The Cinessential. May 5, 2018.
- 14.Swartz, Tracy. 5 Things to Know About '16 Shots,' the New Documentary About Laquan McDonald's Killing. Chicago Tribune. June 11, 2019.
- 15.Jaworowski, Ken. '16 Shots' Review: Chicago's Rage After a Killing by the Police. The New York Times. June 6, 2019.
- 16.Scheck, Frank. '16 Shots': Film Review. The Hollywood Reporter. June 7, 2019.
- 17.Kenigsberg, Ben. 'Kingdom of Silence' Review: A Spotlight on Jamal Khashoggi. New York Times. October 1, 2020.
- 18.McFarland, Melanie. "Kingdom of Silence": A Wrenching Look at How Jamal Khashoggi's Life Is a Story as Big as His Death. Salon.com. October 2, 2020.
- 19.Aguilar, Carlos. Kingdom of Silence. RogerEbert.com. October 2, 2020.
- 20.Oller, Jacob. American Insurrection Attempts to Shine a Light on Hate Groups Operating In Broad Daylight. Paste Magazine. April 13, 2021.
- 21.Frontline: American Insurrection. PBS.
- 22.Critical Incident. HBO.
- 23.Carey, Matthew. In ‘Hell’s Army,’ Intrepid Journalists Investigate Brutal Wagner Group, Russia’s Merciless Mercenary Army – CPH:DOX. Deadline Hollywood. March 10, 2026.
- 24.Ross, Rafa Sales. 'Hell's Army' Director on the Rise of Russian Mercenary Legion the Wagner Group, and a Warning for the U.S.: 'This Darkness Is Coming Everywhere'. Variety. March 15, 2026.
- 25.Rick Rowley. IMDb.
- 26.Winners of the 2020 duPont-Columbia Awards Columbia Journalism School. journalism.columbia.edu.
- 27.Three FRONTLINE Reports Honored as 2022 duPont-Columbia Award Finalists. FRONTLINE.
- 28.FRONTLINE Wins George Polk Award for "American Insurrection". FRONTLINE.
- 29.FRONTLINE: Michael Flynn's Holy War. The Peabody Awards.
- 30.FRONTLINE (PBS) Wins 3 Edward R. Murrow Awards. FRONTLINE.
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