67 BOMBS TO ENID

Documentary | Director, Producer, DP, Editor | 2025 | 89min | IMDB

From executive producer Errol Morris comes one of the most quietly devastating documentaries in recent memory. Directors Kevin Ford and Ty McMahan spent years tracking down survivors of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands — people who watched bombs detonate from close range and then somehow had to build a life afterward in rural America. The result is a film that gets under your skin and stays there. Best Documentary, deadCenter Film Festival.

SR.

Robert Downey Sr. made films in the New York underground in the 1960s that were provocations disguised as movies — transgressive, funny, genuinely unhinged. When it came time to document the last chapter of his life, along with filmmaker Chris Smith, Ford spent three years in it: digging through archives, sitting in rooms with Downey, building an intimate portrait of an artist who never once sold out. Produced alongside Emily Barclay Ford, Susan Downey, and Robert Downey Jr. Premiered at Telluride. Winner of Best Documentary from the National Board of Review and the Grierson Award. Streaming on Netflix.

THE PATHWAY

Documentary | Lead DP, Co-Producer | 2 Seasons | YOUTUBE | IMDB

From executive producer Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith and produced by Endgame Entertainment for the NBA, The Pathway premiered on TNT and followed Team Ignite — a bold, unprecedented pipeline designed to fast-track the world’s most elite high school basketball players to the pros.

THE PUSHBACK

Producer Richard Linklater. Director Kevin Ford. Subject: Texas — its land, its borders, its racial history, its future. The Pushback was an official selection of SXSW and didn’t flinch in it’s portrayal of a state in the middle of an identity crisis, following the people fighting over what it means and who it belongs to. Winner of Best Documentary, El Paso Film Festival, 2020.

AMERICAN CHAOS

Six months before the 2016 election, director Jim Stern and Ford loaded up and drove into red-state America with one question: what the hell is happening? American Chaos is the document of that trip — a ground-level dispatch from the cultural fault line, released by Sony Pictures Classics. It has not aged out of relevance.

THE BOMB

Ford spent hundreds of hours in archival material making this film with Smriti Keshari and journalist Eric Schlosser — an immersive reckoning with nuclear weapons: the technology, the mythology, the insanity of the whole enterprise. Premiered at Tribeca 2016, screened at Berlinale, Glastonbury, and the Nobel Peace Awards ceremony. It is not a comfortable watch. It is not supposed to be.

STONE BARN CASTLE

Documentary | Director, DP, Editor | 2014 | 95min | IMDB

In 2007, Adrien Brody bought a burned-out stone barn in the woods of upstate New York and decided to turn it into something. Seven years later, he and Ford had also made a film about it. Stone Barn Castle is about obsession and craftsmanship and what happens when you refuse to quit on a vision. Premiered at SXSW, 2015.

THE PARTY’S OVER

Documentary | DP | 2000 | 95min | AMAZON | IMDB | YOUTUBE

Philip Seymour Hoffman as your guide through the 2000 presidential election, Ford behind the camera. The question on the table: does engaging with a broken two-party system mean anything at all? Nobody had a clean answer then either. A cross-country expedition that’s part road movie, part political reckoning — and more relevant than ever.

THREE DAYS

A film about chaos, catharsis, and one of rock’s most volatile comebacks. Three Days documents Jane’s Addiction’s controversial 1997 Relapse Tour alongside Flea and Cinque Lee (Mystery Train) — a raw, multi-media portrait of a band daring themselves to fall apart. Co-directed by Carter B. Smith and Kevin Ford. Premiered at Slamdance, 1999.