Maclain Way

Maclain Way is an American documentary film director and producer.^[1][2] He is best known for producing the Netflix documentary series Untold, directing Wild Wild Country and The Battered Bastards of Baseball.^[3][4]

Maclain Way
Born	Ventura County, California, U.S.
Occupations	Director producer
Years active	2014 – present
Relatives	Chapman Way (brother) Brocker Way (brother)

Maclain received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for Wild Wild Country in 2018.^[5]

Life and career

Maclain was born and raised in Ventura County, California. He attended UCLA, where he studied history and documentary film.^[6] He is a grandson of actor Bing Russell and nephew of actor Kurt Russell.^[7]

Maclain directed and produced his debut documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, along with his brother Chapman Way. The film told the story of the Portland Mavericks and premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired and later released by Netflix as one of their first original documentary films.^[8][9] In 2018, he directed a documentary series, Wild Wild Country, along with Chapman Way for Netflix about the controversial guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho).^[10] In 2021, he produced the Netflix documentary series "Untold" and directed Untold: Crimes and Penalties and Untold: Breaking Point, along with Chapman Way.^[11]

Filmography

Year	Title	Contribution	Note
2024	The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga	Director and Executive producer	Documentary series
2022	Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist	Executive Producer	Documentary
2022	Untold: The Rise and Fall of And1	Executive Producer	Documentary
2022	Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul	Executive Producer	Documentary
2022	Untold: Race of the Century	Director and producer	Documentary
2021	Untold: Crimes & Penalties	Director and producer	Documentary
2021	Untold: Caitlyn Jenner	Executive Producer	Documentary
2021	Untold: Deal with the Devil	Executive Producer	Documentary
2021	Untold: Breaking Point	Director and producer	Documentary
2021	Untold: Malice at the Palace	Executive Producer	Documentary
2018	Wild Wild Country	Director, sound mixer and producer	Documentary series
2016	The New Yorker Presents	Director and producer	1 episode
2014	The Battered Bastards of Baseball	Director and producer	Documentary

Awards and nominations

Year	Result	Award	Category	Work	Ref.
2018	Won	International Documentary Association	Best Limited Series	Wild Wild Country	[12]
	Won	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series		[13]
	Nominated		Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program
2019	Nominated	Cinema Eye Honors	Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Series for Broadcast		[14]
2021	Nominated	International Documentary Association	Best Episodic Series	Untold	[15]