Margaret Brown is an American film director who has directed four feature length documentaries.

Brown served as cinematographer for 99 Threadwaxing in 1999 and director for Ice Fishing in 2000.

Time Out magazine listed it at number 7 on its "50 Greatest Music Films Ever".

[5] She subsequently directed the feature documentary The Order of Myths[6] a 2008 Sundance Film Festival selection about the segregated Mardi Gras celebration of Mobile, Alabama.

[22][23] Brown was nominated a Cultural Ambassador[citation needed] for Documentary Filmmaking from the United States to Colombia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and holds fellowships from United States Artists[25] and The MacDowell Colony.