Richard Rowley (also known as Rick Rowley) is a documentary

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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 ''

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'' 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'', 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.

Selected filmography

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

Zapatista uprising On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) coordinated a 12-day Zapatista uprising in the state of Chiapas, Mexico in protest of NAFTA's enactment. The revolt gathered international attention. Background Disease, ensl ...

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 * ''

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'' (2003) – about

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s around the world * ''

'' (2013) – about the

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and the

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* ''The Blue Wall'' (2018) – about the

murder of Laquan McDonald The murder of Laquan McDonald took place on October 20, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. McDonald was a 17-year-old who was fatally shot by a Chicago Police Officer, Jason Van Dyke. Police had initially reported that McDonald was behaving erratically ...

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 On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist was assassinated by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi was ambushed and strangled by a 15-member squad of Saudi assassins. His body ...

* ''American Insurrection'' (2021) – about the

2021 United States Capitol attack On January 6, 2021, following the defeat of then-U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The mob was seeking to keep Trump in pow ...

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