Jack Thomas Smith (born March 10, 1969) is an American producer, writer and director of feature films and documentary television series.

He began to develop an interest in storytelling and horror at the age of nine when he read the Stephen King novel The Shining.

[3][7] While living in Sparta, Smith worked at a video store, where he discovered the films of George A. Romero, Stanley Kubrick, Brian De Palma, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and Tobe Hooper, who would influence his work.

[3] Smith's next feature film was the found footage horror drama Infliction, which he wrote, directed and produced through his production company, Fox Trail Productions Inc. Filmed from October 3 to November 4, 2011, in Mooresville, Cornelius, Salisbury and Charlotte, North Carolina, with a cast of actors based mostly in Charlotte, Infliction depicts two brothers, John and Kenneth Stiles, as they chronicle a vigilante murder spree in North Carolina in 2011.

Smith chose to structure the story, which was inspired by an acquaintance of Smith's who lived through an experience similar to the one depicted in the film, as a first-person narrative in order to provide the audience with a behind-the-scenes perspective into how the motives for the crimes develop, and the effects of long-term child abuse.

[1] In 2018, Smith created the documentary TV series War Heroes, hosted by author and former U.S. Army Ranger Kris Paronto.

The pilot episode, which premiered at sold-out screenings in Las Vegas and New Jersey, profiles Sergeant Ryan E. Doltz, who died in the line of duty in Baghdad in June 2004.

[1] On September 10, 2021, Newsmax premiered the documentary 9/11: The Day That Shook The World, which Smith directed and co-executive produced with Del Rio.

Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the film relates accounts of that day from surviving firefighters, relatives of those who lost their lives, and former New York City officials who lived through the attacks, including Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, FDNY Tom Von Essen, NYPD Bernard Kerik, and Congressman Peter T.