Alex Gibney
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.
70 directing credits · 21 acting credits
Directing · 70
Billions
2016
Independent Lens
1999
Storyville
1997
Uppdrag granskning
2001
The Looming Tower
2018
Dirty Money
2018
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
2024
The New Yorker Presents
2016
The Innocence Files
2020
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
30 for 30 Shorts
2012
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
2023
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
The Dark Money Game
2025
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008
Zero Days
2016
The Crime of the Century
2021
Cooked
2016
Agents of Chaos
2020
Citizen K
2019
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
2018
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
The Armstrong Lie
2013
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
2026
30 for 30: Soccer Stories
2014
The Fifties
1997
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
Totally Under Control
2021
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010
Freakonomics
2010
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011
The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
1999
Two Wolves
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Musk
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Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
30 for 30 - ESPN Films
2011
The Forever Prisoner
2021
Catching Hell
2011
Finding Fela
2014
Behind Those Eyes
2005
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
2010
No Stone Unturned
2017
The Last Gladiators
2012
The Human Behavior Experiments
2006
Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
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Ceasefire Massacre
2014
Time Piece
2006
Fields of Fear
2014
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001
Flipper
1980
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
1998
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
2005
The Ruling Classroom
1980
Inside Japan, Inc.
1992
Manufacturing Miracles
1988
Speaking with Light
2012
Acting · 21
The Daily Show
1996
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The View
1997
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Oscars
1953
Dirty Money
2018
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
2024
The New Yorker Presents
2016
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
The Dark Money Game
2025
Agents of Chaos
2020
Citizen K
2019
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
The Armstrong Lie
2013
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
Totally Under Control
2021
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
Catching Hell
2011