Davis Guggenheim
Directing
1963-11-03 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an Academy Award-winning American documentary and live action film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood, and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for 'Superman'. Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different films that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman'). Guggenheim's cinematographic projects received severals awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for An Inconvenient Truth, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature for He Named Me Malala and two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
Filmography
TheatersA Statement
2026 · Movie
A Killer Story
2026 · Series
Love Apptually
2026 · Movie
The Plastic Detox
2026 · Movie
Soul Patrol
2026 · Movie
The Tale of Silyan
2025 · Movie
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
2025 · Movie
Uvalde Mom
2025 · Movie
Mistress Dispeller
2025 · Movie
Deaf President Now!
2025 · Movie
Rita
2024 · Movie
Eternal You
2024 · Movie
We Can Be Heroes
2024 · Movie
Girls State
2024 · Movie
The Enfield Poltergeist
2023 · Series
Navajo Police: Class 57
2023 · Series
Burden of Proof
2023 · Series
Working: What We Do All Day
2023 · Series
Subject
2023 · Movie
Under G-d
2023 · Movie
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023 · Movie
Mija
2022 · Movie
Accepted
2022 · Movie
Bitterbrush
2022 · Movie
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
2022 · Series
Aftershock
2022 · Movie
Swan Song
2021 · Movie
Mistress Dispeller
2021 · Movie
Procession
2021 · Movie
At the Ready
2021 · Movie
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Movie
All These Sons
2021 · Movie
Homeroom
2021 · Movie
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Movie
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Movie
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Movie
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
2020 · Movie
Container
2020 · Movie
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
2020 · Movie
Time
2020 · Movie
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
2020 · Movie
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
2020 · Movie
Boys State
2020 · Movie
A Thousand Cuts
2020 · Movie
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
2019 · Series
Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019 · Movie
Paulette
2019 · Movie
Wolf's Mouth
2019 · Movie
Darlin
2019 · Movie
To Be Queen
2019 · Movie
El Vacío
2019 · Movie
Walk Run Cha-Cha
2019 · Movie
Sweetheart Dancers
2019 · Movie
Bisbee '17
2018 · Movie
The Price of Free
2018 · Movie
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017 · Movie
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
2016 · Movie
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016 · Movie
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015 · Movie
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
2015 · Movie
He Named Me Malala
2015 · Movie
Spent: Looking for Change
2014 · Movie
Teach
2013 · Movie
The Dream Is Now
2013 · Movie
Widow Detective
2012 · Movie
The Road We've Traveled
2012 · Movie
Obama 2012 Convention Film
2012 · Movie
U2: From the Sky Down
2011 · Movie
Waiting for "Superman"
2010 · Movie
The Defenders
2010 · Series
Melrose Place
2009 · Series
Carissa
2008 · Movie
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
2008 · Movie
It Might Get Loud
2008 · Movie
The Tower
2008 · Movie
Gracie
2007 · Movie
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
2006 · Movie
3 lbs
2006 · Series
An Inconvenient Truth
2006 · Movie
The Unit
2006 · Series
Wanted
2005 · Series
Numb3rs
2005 · Series
Deadwood
2004 · Series
imagine…
2003 · Series
Push, Nevada
2002 · Series
The Shield
2002 · Series
24
2001 · Series
Training Day
2001 · Movie
Alias
2001 · Series
The First Year
2001 · Movie
Teach
2001 · Movie
Gossip
2000 · Movie
The Art of Norton Simon
1999 · Movie
C-16: FBI
1997 · Series
The Visitor
1997 · Series
Relativity
1996 · Series
Charlie Grace
1995 · Series
ER
1994 · Series
Party of Five
1994 · Series
NYPD Blue
1993 · Series
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
1992 · Movie
Breaking and Entering
1992 · Movie
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991 · Movie
Sisters
1991 · Series
sex, lies, and videotape
1989 · Movie