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.