Sam Dolan

Director, producer and writer

Samuel K. Dolan is a writer, director, Emmy Award winning producer and nonfiction author. In addition to his extensive production credits, Dolan has contributed to True West Magazine and other publications and is the author of several books including, "Hell Paso: Life and Death in the Old West's Most Dangerous Town" and "Cowboys and Gangsters: Stories of an Untamed Southwest." His production credits include extensive work for the History Channel, Discovery and National Geographic. He has also served as an interpretive specialist for the United States Marine Corps Historical Company. Dolan began his career on horseback at age 13, on feature films such as "Tombstone" and "Maverick" in 1993. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Dolan had a number of other film and television roles, while also working in production as a weapons handler, horse wrangler and double. Dolan started working in documentary television in 1998. In 2008 he received a News and Documentary Emmy as one of the producers of "A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day", a History Channel special that highlighted the role of African American soldiers in the Normandy Invasion. In 2010 Dolan developed a concept for a series about the Navajo Nation Police in Arizona and New Mexico. Later that year he wrote and produced the pilot episode of "Navajo Cops" for the National Geographic Channel. In the summer of 2011, National Geographic ordered six more episodes of "Navajo Cops". Dolan served as Senior Producer and Director on all six episodes and wrote three of hour-long shows. The series was produced by Flight 33 Productions in the summer and fall of 2011 and in the winter of 2012. The first of the six episodes premiered on March 12, 2012 on National Geographic Channel. In 2013, Dolan served as a writer, director and Senior Producer on the Military Channel's "Warrior POV" and was a writer and Senior Producer on H2's "Big History", a 16-part series narrated by Brian Cranston. Between 2006 and 2015, Dolan served as a staff Senior Producer, writer, director and military adviser with Flight 33 Productions. More recently, Dolan has served as a Supervising Producer with Warm Springs Productions.

What are Sam Dolan's films like?

Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight

Survival

24%

Bonds

20%

Self

15%

Ideas

15%

Morality

14%

Society

10%

Power

3%

Survival2 Nature2 Purpose2 Loyalty2 Ambition2 Sacrifice2 Community3

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

6

Contemplative

4

Thrilling

3

Elegiac

1

Bittersweet

2

Other

4

How their films linger

Thought-provoking7 Haunting3 Rousing3 Bittersweet3

How their films end

Bittersweet2
Ambiguous6

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Sam Dolan's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 13 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (6).

Also on these channels

HISTORY Vault5 titles, show their 5 titles on HISTORY Vault
Fox Nation1 title, show their title on Fox Nation

Subscription and free streaming for Sam Dolan's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

13 credits, 13 with a MovieCove page.

Saving Yellowstone(2025)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Outlaws & Lawmen(2024)
Show Producer
Fish or Die(2019)
Show Producer
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Codes and Conspiracies(2014)
Show Creator
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
Big History(2013)
Show Director · Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
Warrior POV(2013)
Show Director · Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
History of the World in 2 Hours(2011)
Producer
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Battle 360(2008)
Show Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day(2007)
Producer
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Shootout!(2005)
Show Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
The Long Ride Home(2003)
as Billy
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
Hard Bounty(1995)
as (uncredited)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
Sliders(1995)
Show 1 episode · as Union Soldier
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows