Dawn Porter
Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker known for Trapped (2016), Gideon's Army (2013) and John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) and founder of production company Trilogy Films.
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Films (25)

When a Witness Recants
2026 · Director, Producer
Harvest
2026 · Executive Producer

Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt Story
2026 · Director
Edge of Daybreak
2025 · Director, Producer

Luther: Never Too Much
2024 · Director, Executive Producer

La Force d'un rêve
2024 · Director, Producer
Rebel Nun
2024 · Executive Producer

Le journal de Lady Bird
2023 · Producer, Director

Merkel
2022 · Executive Producer

Cirque du Soleil : Sans filet
2022 · Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Aftershock
2022 · Executive Producer

Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance
2021 · Director

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
2021 · Director, Producer
Women Who Make History
2021 · Director

Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain
2020 · Director

The Way I See It
2020 · Director, Producer

John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 · Producer, Director

Voting Matters
2018 · Director

The Racial Politics of Abortion
2018 · Director

Trapped
2016 · Director

My Brother’s Keeper
2015 · Director

Spies of Mississippi
2014 · Director, Producer

Gideon's Army
2013 · Director, Writer, Producer

Serious Moonlight
2009 · Executive Producer
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
· Director, Producer, Writer
Séries (7)

Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015
2025 · Executive Producer

The Sing Sing Chronicles
2024 · Director, Executive Producer

Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
2023 · Executive Producer, Director

37 Words
2022 · Director

Le moi derrière moi
2021 · Executive Producer, Director

Philly D.A.
2021 · Executive Producer

Bobby Kennedy for President
2018 · Director, Executive Producer
