Davis Guggenheim
Known for: Directing
Born: November 3, 1963
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
78 movies · 27 TV shows, newest first
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A Statement
2026
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A Killer Story
2026
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Love Apptually
2026
6.9
The Plastic Detox
2026
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Soul Patrol
2026
7.1
The Tale of Silyan
2025
9.0
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
2025
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Uvalde Mom
2025
7.2
Mistress Dispeller
2025
8.1
Deaf President Now!
2025
5.8
Rita
2024
6.7
Eternal You
2024
2.0
We Can Be Heroes
2024
7.3
Girls State
2024
6.4
The Enfield Poltergeist
2023
6.5
Navajo Police: Class 57
2023
6.2
Burden of Proof
2023
7.1
Working: What We Do All Day
2023
6.7
Subject
2023
7.3
Under G-d
2023
7.8
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023
5.7
Mija
2022
6.7
Accepted
2022
6.0
Bitterbrush
2022
9.0
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
2022
7.3
Aftershock
2022
7.1
Swan Song
2021NR
Mistress Dispeller
2021
6.6
Procession
2021
4.0
At the Ready
2021
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
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All These Sons
2021
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Homeroom
2021NR
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
2020NR
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
2020NR
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
2020NR
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
2020NR
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
2020NR
Container
2020
6.7
Time
2020
8.6
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020
2020
6.6
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
2020
7.1
Boys State
2020
6.8
A Thousand Cuts
2020
5.6
Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019
7.3
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
2019NR
Paulette
2019
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Wolf's Mouth
2019
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Darlin
2019
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To Be Queen
2019NR
El Vacío
2019
5.5
Walk Run Cha-Cha
2019
9.0
Sweetheart Dancers
2019
6.9
Bisbee '17
2018
7.3
The Price of Free
2018
6.6
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017NR
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
2016
8.4
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016
7.0
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015
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U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015
2015
6.7
He Named Me Malala
2015
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Spent: Looking for Change
2014
7.0
Teach
2013NR
The Dream Is Now
2013NR
Widow Detective
2012
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The Road We've Traveled
2012NR
Obama 2012 Convention Film
2012
7.5
U2: From the Sky Down
2011
6.9
Waiting for "Superman"
2010
7.2
The Defenders
2010
5.8
Melrose Place
2009NR
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
2008NR
Carissa
2008
7.2
It Might Get Loud
2008NR
The Tower
2008
6.2
Gracie
2007NR
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
2006
4.4
3 lbs
2006
6.9
An Inconvenient Truth
2006
7.4
The Unit
2006
7.4
Wanted
2005
7.0
Numb3rs
2005
8.1
Deadwood
2004
6.2
imagine…
2003
5.4
Push, Nevada
2002
8.2
The Shield
2002
7.8
24
2001
7.5
Training Day
2001
6.8
Alias
2001
7.7
The First Year
20017.0
Teach
2001
5.8
Gossip
20008.0
The Art of Norton Simon
1999
7.3
C-16: FBI
1997
6.4
The Visitor
1997
5.2
Relativity
1996
8.0
Charlie Grace
1995
7.8
ER
1994
7.0
Party of Five
1994
7.0
NYPD Blue
1993
5.6
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
19929.0
Breaking and Entering
1992
6.2
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
7.2
Sisters
1991
7.0
sex, lies, and videotape
1989