Richard Rowley (also known as Rick Rowley) is a

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

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. 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 America's war on terror. Since then, Rowley has turned his lens on racial injustice in the United States. His 2019 feature for Showtime, ''

16 Shots ''16 Shots'' is a documentary film about the murder of Laquan McDonald. Written and directed by Richard Rowley, it is an updated and expanded version of the 2018 movie ''The Blue Wall''. It had a limited theatrical release on June 7, 2019, a ...

'', 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.

Awards

* 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

Selected filmography

Rick Rowley directed or co-directed these documentary films: * ''Zapatista'' (1999) – about the

Zapatista uprising On 1 January 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) coordinated a 12-day uprising in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, in protest against the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The rebels occupied citie ...

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 The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN, ALKN, or LKN, also known as simply Latin Kings) is a gang active primarily in the United States. The gang was founded by Puerto Ricans in Chicago, Illinois, in 1954. The Latin Kings are one of t ...

in New York City * '' The Fourth World War'' (2003) – about

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s 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 On October 20, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois, Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old boy, was murdered when he was fatally shot by Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke. Police had initially reported that McDonald was behaving er ...

and subsequent events * ''

'' (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 On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of Donald Trump, President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup,Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * * two months afte ...

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