Director

Rick Rowley

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Directed movies: 17Directed series: 0All crew credits: 21

TMDB ID: 1030363

IMDb ID: nm0746823

Known for: Directing

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1999 - 2026

Years active: 28

Average TMDB rating: 7.11

Wikidata: Q16875163

Also known as

Richard Rowley

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Director (13)Director of Photography (4)Producer (3)Camera Technician (1)

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Biography

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

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