About Samuel Black
Samuel Black is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is a reporter and producer at More Perfect Union, where he covers tech, labor, energy, finance, housing, and U.S. politics. Across two decades working in documentary film and television, he has directed or produced feature-length films including “Plot to Overturn the Election” (2022) for Frontline PBS; “The Big Squeeze” (2021) about the GameStop short squeeze, which was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Business and Economics Documentary; and “Kingdom of Silence” (2020 – dir. Richard Rowley) about Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary.
For many years Sam was a producer at Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English’s flagship current affairs program, and at Jigsaw Productions, Alex Gibney’s Oscar-winning documentary film company, where he worked on films including “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” “Casino Jack and the United States of Money,” and “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson.” He has produced work for PBS, HBO, Showtime, Vice, Universal, A&E, and This American Life, and he has reported from Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Turkey, Thailand, the U.A.E., the U.K., Qatar, and across the United States.
His projects have received awards from the Overseas Press Club, the Walter Cronkite Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the Scripps Howard Awards, the Producers Guild, the NIHCM Foundation, and the News & Documentary Emmys. He studied history at Yale University and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in business and economics journalism at Columbia University.
