
Dawn Porter
Directing
Biography
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.
🎬 Movies (24)

When a Witness Recants
2026
Director

Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt Story
2026
Director
Harvest
2026
Executive Producer
Edge of Daybreak
2025
Director

Luther: Never Too Much
2024
Director
Rebel Nun
2024
Executive Producer

Power of the Dream
2024
Director

The Lady Bird Diaries
2023
Director

Aftershock
2022
Executive Producer

Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net
2022
Director

Merkel
2022
Executive Producer
Women Who Make History
2021
Director

Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance
2021
Director

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
2021
Director

John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Director

The Way I See It
2020
Director

Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain
2020
Director

The Racial Politics of Abortion
2018
Director

Voting Matters
2018
Director

Trapped
2016
Director

My Brother’s Keeper
2015
Director

Spies of Mississippi
2014
Director

Gideon's Army
2013
Director

Serious Moonlight
2009
Executive Producer
📺 TV Shows (7)

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

The Sing Sing Chronicles
2024
Director

Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
2023
Director

37 Words
2022
Director

The Me You Can't See
2021
Director

Philly D.A.
2021
Executive Producer

Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
Director