We Uncovered the Secret Scheme Trapping Americans in Car Loans
Producer & Host, More Perfect Union, 2026
Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
Reporting
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OpenAl Showed Up At My Door
Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me
Producer, More Perfect Union, 2026
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We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers
It’s in Your Electric Bill
Producer & Host, More Perfect Union, 2025
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We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning
Producer & Host, More Perfect Union, 2025
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From the Archives
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The Convert
Writer & Producer, This American Life, 2012
Films
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Plot to Overturn the Election
Director, Writer & Producer, Frontline PBS in collaboration with ProPublica, 2022
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The Big Squeeze
Director, VICE, 2021
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Kingdom of Silence
Producer, SHOWTIME, 2020
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We Steal Secrets
The Story of WikiLeaks
Supervising Producer, Universal Pictures, distributed by Focus Features, 2013
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Magic Trip
Associate Producer, Distributed by Magnolia Pictures and A&E IndieFilms, 2011
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Too Big to Fail
Researcher, HBO Films, 2011
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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.
