She wrote, directed, and produced many documentaries for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program Frontline, winning awards for several episodes including High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990) about the Iran-Contra Affair and Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History (2003).
[3] As head of Washington Media Associates, she produced and directed documentary films for CNN, ABC, and PBS, collaborating with journalists such as Bill Moyers, Peter Jennings, and Hedrick Smith.
[4] Between 1987 and 1991, Jones spent time in Moscow working on documentaries and learning Russian.
Her films explored a range of subjects such as an in-depth analysis of the Iran-Contra Affair (High Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1990),[6] campaign finance violations in the 1996 elections (Washington's Other Scandal, 1998),[7] and an examination of the Nixon Administration through interviews with former White House aide Jeb Stuart Magruder (Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History, 2003).
[8] The 2008 documentary, Torturing Democracy, produced in association with the National Security Archive where Jones was a senior fellow, detailed the use of torture by the Bush Administration during the War on Terror, and was one of the last films she produced before retiring from filmmaking.