Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Alexandra Premieres New Jan. 6 Documentary, Featuring Interviews With Capitol Rioters

Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, the youngest daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is releasing a new HBO Original documentary on Sunday centered around the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters.

The Insurrectionist Next Door, Pelosi's 15th HBO documentary, “turns the camera on some of the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,” according to the network. “Through a series of candid interviews conducted over the last two years, Pelosi talks to several individuals charged with crimes for their participation in the unprecedented events of the day.”

The younger Pelosi, who was inside the U.S. Capitol at the time, “speaks with people who were there that day in the hopes of having open and unfiltered conversations about what brought them to Washington, D.C. from across the country and how their views may or may not have shifted since that fateful day,” HBO said.

“The left says that you're domestic terrorists. The right says you're all just tourists," Pelosi can be heard saying in the documentary trailer, which dropped on Tuesday. “But the United States government thinks you’re all insurrectionists.”

In the trailer, Pelosi asks a rioter — currently imprisoned — how he broke into the Capitol. “I just walked right in,” he replied over the phone.

“Did you go to the Capitol to assassinate my mother?” Pelosi asked another young female rioter on camera, who replied, “No.”

Another man, wearing Donald Trump socks and sporting a “Hillary [Clinton] For Cellmate 2022” T-shirt, smiles as Pelosi tells him, “I can see you’re taking this sentencing very seriously.”

The Insurrectionist Next Door — which premieres on HBO at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15, and will be available to stream on Max — is produced by Pelosi and edited by Geof Bartz, with Nancy Abraham and Lisa Helle serving as executive producers. Anna Klein is a coordinating producer. 

Pelosi's 2022 HBO documentary, Pelosi in the House, gave a behind-the-scenes glimpse at her mother's history-making career as the nation's first and only female speaker of the House.

The political daughter's work in filmmaking dates back to her time as a field producer at NBC News, when she turned her reporting on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign into an Emmy-nominated documentary, Journeys with George.