Jamila Wignot (Directing)

Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story

An astonishing and wide-ranging account of Joe Francis, whose impact on American culture cannot be overstated, whose alleged sins are numerous, and who now lives in exile on a sprawling estate in Mexico amidst the rubble of his once mighty empire.

Release Date:2024-12-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Stax: Soulsville USA

The story of an underdog, interracial record label that ushered in groundbreaking music.

Release Date:2024-05-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

Riotsville, USA

An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.

Release Date:2022-09-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3

Storming Caesars Palace

This inspiring documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Ruby Duncan, an activist who fights the welfare system and becomes a White House advisor.

Release Date:2022-08-03

Department:Production

Job:Consulting Producer

Ailey

Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.

Release Date:2021-07-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:6

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a "Green Revolution" of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work but spent the rest of his life watching his methods and achievements come under increasing fire.

Release Date:2020-04-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Street Fighting Men

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight to build something lasting for themselves and future generations.

Release Date:2017-04-30

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:2

Town Hall

An inside look into two years in the lives of Katy and John, Tea Party activists from Central Pennsylvania, as they fight to preserve the America they fear is slipping away.

Release Date:2013-05-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Triangle Fire

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.

Release Date:2011-03-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

Walt Whitman

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.

Release Date:2008-04-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

Jesse James

He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself.

Release Date:2006-02-06

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

The Massie Affair

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following days and weeks was a racially-charged murder case that would make headlines across the nation, enrage Hawai'i's native population, and galvanize the island's law enforcers and the nation's social elite.

Release Date:2005-04-18

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:3

American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Release Date:1988-10-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:45

Vote Count:31

American Masters

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.

Release Date:1986-06-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:17