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.

Crew

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

(Writer)

The First Wave

(Executive Producer)

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

(Director)

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

(Screenplay)

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

(Director)

The House Is Burning

(Producer)

Taxi to the Dark Side

(Director)

Taxi to the Dark Side

(Writer)

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

(Director)

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

(Director)

Freakonomics

(Director)

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

(Writer)

Freakonomics

(Writer)

Freakonomics

(Screenplay)

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

(Producer)

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

(Director)

Mr. Untouchable

(Producer)

Catching Hell

(Writer)

Catching Hell

(Director)

The Last Gladiators

(Director)

Magic Trip

(Writer)

Magic Trip

(Director)

The Soul of a Man

(Producer)

Venus and Serena

(Executive Producer)

Love Comes Lately

(Executive Producer)

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

(Director)

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

(Screenplay)

Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream

(Director)

Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream

(Writer)

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

(Director)

The Armstrong Lie

(Director)

Finding Fela

(Producer)

Finding Fela

(Director)

The Human Behavior Experiments

(Director)

Ceasefire Massacre

(Director)

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

(Writer)

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

(Producer)

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

(Director)

137 Shots

(Executive Producer)

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

(Director)

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

(Producer)

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

(Director)

Fields of Fear

(Director)

The Huntress

(Executive Producer)

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

(Writer)

Dirty Business

(Producer)

Two Wolves

(Producer)

Two Wolves

(Director)

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

(Screenplay)

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

(Producer)

The Forever Prisoner

(Director)

The Forever Prisoner

(Producer)

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

(Producer)

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

(Writer)

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

(Executive Producer)

Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America

(Director)

Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America

(Writer)

Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America

(Producer)

Zero Days

(Director)

Zero Days

(Writer)

Janis: Little Girl Blue

(Producer)

What Happened, Miss Simone?

(Thanks)

The Ruling Classroom

(Director)

The Armstrong Lie

(Writer)

The Armstrong Lie

(Producer)

The Sound of Philadelphia

(Producer)

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

(Producer)

Zero Days

(Producer)

Musk

(Director)

Musk

(Producer)

Orwell

(Producer)

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

(Thanks)

Elián

(Executive Producer)

Accidental Anarchist

(Executive Producer)

No Stone Unturned

(Director)

Taxi to the Dark Side

(Producer)

No Stone Unturned

(Writer)

Knife

(Director)

The China Hustle

(Executive Producer)

The Hands That Held the Knives

(Producer)

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

(Producer)

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

(Producer)

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

(Director)

Flipper

(Director)

Flipper

(Writer)

Between Goodbyes

(Executive Producer)

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

(Writer)

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

(Producer)

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

(Director)

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

(Producer)

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

(Writer)

Citizen K

(Director)

Citizen K

(Producer)

Citizen K

(Screenplay)

Magic Trip

(Producer)

Crazy, Not Insane

(Director)

Crazy, Not Insane

(Producer)

Kingdom of Silence

(Executive Producer)

Totally Under Control

(Producer)

Totally Under Control

(Director)

Totally Under Control

(Writer)

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

(Executive Producer)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

(Writer)

The Bibi Files

(Producer)

Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary

(Producer)

Walk with Me

(Executive Producer)

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

(Executive Producer)

Citizen Ashe

(Executive Producer)

Los Últimos Frikis

(Executive Producer)

No Stone Unturned

(Producer)

American Jihad

(Executive Producer)

Water & Power: A California Heist

(Executive Producer)

City of Ghosts

(Executive Producer)

Zero Days VR

(Executive Producer)

Every Move You Make

(Consulting Producer)

Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley

(Executive Producer)

Spring Broke

(Executive Producer)

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

(Executive Producer)

What's Motivating Hayes

(Executive Producer)

Sunshine Superman

(Executive Producer)

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

(Producer)

Biba! One Island, 879 Votes

(Executive Producer)

The Last Gladiators

(Producer)

Catching Hell

(Executive Producer)

Freakonomics

(Producer)

Money-Driven Medicine

(Producer)

No End in Sight

(Executive Producer)

The Human Behavior Experiments

(Producer)

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

(Producer)

Who Killed the Electric Car?

(Consulting Producer)

Behind Those Eyes

(Writer)

Behind Those Eyes

(Director)

Behind Those Eyes

(Producer)

3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas

(Director)

3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas

(Producer)

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

(Producer)

Lightning in a Bottle

(Producer)

Brooklyn Babylon

(Executive Producer)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

(Producer)

The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power

(Producer)

Soldiers in the Army of God

(Producer)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy

(Writer)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy

(Director)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy

(Producer)

The Ruling Classroom

(Producer)

Manufacturing Miracles

(Director)

Manufacturing Miracles

(Producer)

Kids Don't Know What's Best

(Producer)

Knife

(Producer)

Return to Timbuktu

(Producer)

Speaking with Light

(Director)

Dear Governor Cuomo

(Director)

Time Piece

(Director)

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

(Director)

Crazy, Not Insane

(Writer)

The Human Behavior Experiments

(Writer)

The Ruling Classroom

(Editor)

The Ruling Classroom

(Sound)

The Soul of a Man

(Camera Operator)

The Golden Seal

(Associate Editor)

Jimi Hendrix and The Blues

(Director)

Jimi Hendrix and The Blues

(Producer)

Inside Japan, Inc."

(Director)

Ceasefire Massacre

(Producer)

Storyville

(Director)

Dirty Money

(Director)

The Looming Tower

(Executive Producer)

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge

(Director)

History of the Eagles

(Producer)

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge

(Executive Producer)

Sinatra: All or Nothing at All

(Director)

Cooked

(Director)

Billions

(Director)

The Looming Tower

(Director)

Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI

(Director)

Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI

(Executive Producer)

Uppdrag granskning

(Writer)

Uppdrag granskning

(Director)

Uppdrag granskning

(Producer)

Why We Hate

(Executive Producer)

The New Yorker Presents

(Executive Producer)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

(Producer)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

(Writer)

Laurel Canyon

(Executive Producer)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

(Director)

The Innocence Files

(Executive Producer)

The Innocence Files

(Director)

Agents of Chaos

(Director)

Agents of Chaos

(Producer)

Tiger

(Executive Producer)

How to Fix a Drug Scandal

(Executive Producer)

The Crime of the Century

(Director)

The Crime of the Century

(Producer)

The Blues

(Producer)

The Line

(Executive Producer)

Painkiller

(Executive Producer)

How to Change Your Mind

(Executive Producer)

The Crime of the Century

(Writer)

Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker

(Director)

Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker

(Writer)

Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker

(Producer)

Why We Hate

(Writer)

The Looming Tower

(Story)

The Ruling Class

(Executive Producer)

God Save Texas

(Executive Producer)

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

(Director)

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

(Producer)

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

(Executive Producer)

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

(Producer)

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

(Director)

Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo

(Producer)

Death Row Stories

(Executive Producer)

Dirty Money

(Executive Producer)

Dirty Money

(Producer)

The Family

(Executive Producer)

The Clinton Affair

(Executive Producer)

Salt Fat Acid Heat

(Executive Producer)

Enhanced

(Executive Producer)

The Last Shot

(Executive Producer)

Parched

(Executive Producer)

The Killing Season

(Executive Producer)

Cooked

(Executive Producer)

Sinatra: All or Nothing at All

(Executive Producer)

Edge of Eighteen

(Executive Producer)

30 for 30: Soccer Stories

(Producer)

Independent Lens

(Director)

Independent Lens

(Writer)

Independent Lens

(Producer)

The Fifties

(Executive Producer)

The Pacific Century

(Writer)

The Pacific Century

(Executive Producer)

The Sexual Century: The Look of Love

(Producer)

The Sexual Century: The Look of Love

(Director)

Untitled Saeid Mollaei TV Project

(Executive Producer)

The New Yorker Presents

(Director)

30 for 30: Soccer Stories

(Director)

30 for 30 Shorts

(Director)

30 for 30 - ESPN Films

(Director)

The Fifties

(Director)

How to Change Your Mind

(Writer)

Agents of Chaos

(Writer)

The New Yorker Presents

(Writer)

The Sexual Century: The Look of Love

(Writer)

The Fifties

(Writer)

Cooked

(Creator)

The New Yorker Presents

(Creator)

The Looming Tower

(Creator)

The Innocence Files

(Creator)

Agents of Chaos

(Creator)

The Crime of the Century

(Creator)

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

(Creator)

The Sexual Century: The Look of Love

(Creator)

The Fifties

(Creator)

The Pacific Century

(Creator)