Alex Gibney
Directing
1953-10-23 · New York City, New York, USA
Philip Alexander Gibney (/ˈɡɪbni/; born October 23, 1953; New York City) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time." Gibney's works as director include The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (winner of three Emmys in 2015), We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (the winner of three 2013 primetime Emmy awards), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), Casino Jack and the United States of Money, and Taxi to the Dark Side (winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), focusing on a taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002. In 2019, he released his documentary Citizen K, about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian billionaire exile Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Filmography
TheatersMusk
2026 · Movie
TheatersKnife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
2026 · Movie
Edward Said: Between Worlds
2026 · Movie
Connect with Jacob Soboroff
2026 · Series
Speechless
2026 · Movie
Mr. Scorsese
2025 · Series
Orwell: 2+2=5
2025 · Movie
Bodyguard of Lies
2025 · Movie
The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
2025 · Series
The Dark Money Game
2025 · Series
The Bibi Files
2024 · Movie
Walk with Me
2024 · Movie
Between Goodbyes
2024 · Movie
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
2024 · Series
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024 · Movie
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024 · Series
God Save Texas
2024 · Series
Painkiller
2023 · Series
The Ruling Class
2023 · Series
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
2023 · Series
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
2023 · Movie
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo
2022 · Series
How to Change Your Mind
2022 · Series
137 Shots
2021 · Movie
Citizen Ashe
2021 · Movie
The Forever Prisoner
2021 · Movie
The First Wave
2021 · Movie
The Line
2021 · Series
The Crime of the Century
2021 · Series
Totally Under Control
2021 · Movie
Tiger
2021 · Series
Kingdom of Silence
2020 · Movie
Agents of Chaos
2020 · Series
Laurel Canyon
2020 · Series
The Innocence Files
2020 · Series
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
2020 · Series
Crazy, Not Insane
2020 · Movie
Citizen K
2019 · Movie
Los Últimos Frikis
2019 · Movie
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019 · Series
Why We Hate
2019 · Series
The Family
2019 · Series
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019 · Movie
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
2018 · Movie
The Clinton Affair
2018 · Series
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
2018 · Series
Salt Fat Acid Heat
2018 · Series
Enhanced
2018 · Series
The China Hustle
2018 · Movie
The Looming Tower
2018 · Series
Dirty Money
2018 · Series
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018 · Movie
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017 · Series
No Stone Unturned
2017 · Movie
The Last Shot
2017 · Series
Accidental Anarchist
2017 · Movie
City of Ghosts
2017 · Movie
Elián
2017 · Movie
American Jihad
2017 · Movie
Parched
2017 · Series
Water & Power: A California Heist
2017 · Movie
Zero Days VR
2017 · Movie
The Killing Season
2016 · Series
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
2016 · Movie
Zero Days
2016 · Movie
Spring Broke
2016 · Movie
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016 · Movie
Cooked
2016 · Series
The New Yorker Presents
2016 · Series
Billions
2016 · Series
Every Move You Make
2016 · Movie
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015 · Movie
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015 · Movie
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Series
Sunshine Superman
2015 · Movie
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
2015 · Series
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · Movie
What Happened, Miss Simone?
2015 · Movie
What's Motivating Hayes
2015 · Movie
Edge of Eighteen
2014 · Series
Fields of Fear
2014 · Movie
Finding Fela
2014 · Movie
Ceasefire Massacre
2014 · Movie
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014 · Movie
30 for 30: Soccer Stories
2014 · Series
Death Row Stories
2014 · Series
The Armstrong Lie
2013 · Movie
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013 · Movie
History of the Eagles
2013 · Series
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012 · Movie
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012 · Movie
The Last Gladiators
2012 · Movie
Venus and Serena
2012 · Movie
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012 · Movie
Speaking with Light
2012 · Movie
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012 · Movie
30 for 30 Shorts
2012 · Series
Catching Hell
2011 · Movie
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 · Movie
30 for 30 - ESPN Films
2011 · Series
Biba! One Island, 879 Votes
2011 · Movie
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010 · Movie
Freakonomics
2010 · Movie
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010 · Movie
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
2010 · Movie
Dirty Business
2009 · Movie
Money-Driven Medicine
2009 · Movie
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008 · Movie
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008 · Movie
Mr. Untouchable
2007 · Movie
Love Comes Lately
2007 · Movie
No End in Sight
2007 · Movie
Time Piece
2006 · Movie
The House Is Burning
2006 · Movie
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006 · Movie
The Human Behavior Experiments
2006 · Movie
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
2006 · Movie
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
2005 · Movie
Behind Those Eyes
2005 · Movie
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Movie
Lightning in a Bottle
2004 · Movie
The Blues
2003 · Series
The Soul of a Man
2003 · Movie
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Series
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002 · Movie
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001 · Movie
Brooklyn Babylon
2001 · Movie
Uppdrag granskning
2001 · Series
The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power
2000 · Movie
Soldiers in the Army of God
2000 · Movie
The Huntress
2000 · Movie
The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
1999 · Series
Independent Lens
1999 · Series
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
1998 · Movie
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998 · Series
The Fifties
1997 · Series
Storyville
1997 · Series
The View
1997 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
The Pacific Century
1992 · Series
Inside Japan, Inc.
1992 · Movie
Manufacturing Miracles
1988 · Movie
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988 · Movie
The Golden Seal
1983 · Movie
Flipper
1980 · Movie
The Ruling Classroom
1980 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series
A Statement
Movie
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
Movie
Two Wolves
Movie
The Sound of Philadelphia
Movie
Kids Don't Know What's Best
Movie
Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
Movie
Return to Timbuktu
Movie
The Hands That Held the Knives
Movie