Alex Gibney
Known for: Directing
Born: October 23, 1953
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
101 movies · 55 TV shows, newest first
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Musk
2026
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A Statement
2026
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Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
2026
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Edward Said: Between Worlds
2026
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff
2026
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Speechless
2026
8.1
Mr. Scorsese
2025
7.1
Orwell: 2+2=5
2025
7.7
Bodyguard of Lies
2025
7.3
The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
2025
7.2
The Dark Money Game
2025
7.2
The Bibi Files
2024
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Walk with Me
2024
7.0
Between Goodbyes
2024
8.3
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos
2024
6.6
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
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In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024
6.3
God Save Texas
2024
7.2
Painkiller
2023
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The Ruling Class
2023
6.7
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker
2023
5.7
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
2023
6.8
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo
2022
7.8
How to Change Your Mind
2022
6.3
137 Shots
2021
7.5
The Forever Prisoner
2021
4.2
Citizen Ashe
2021
6.7
The First Wave
2021
7.1
The Line
2021
7.7
The Crime of the Century
2021
6.9
Totally Under Control
2021
6.5
Tiger
2021
8.0
Kingdom of Silence
2020
6.7
Agents of Chaos
2020
8.2
Laurel Canyon
2020
7.4
The Innocence Files
2020
7.0
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
2020
7.2
Crazy, Not Insane
2020
6.8
Citizen K
2019
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Los Últimos Frikis
2019
6.7
Why We Hate
2019
7.5
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019
6.7
The Family
2019
7.0
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
6.7
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
2018
6.3
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
2018
6.8
The Clinton Affair
2018
7.9
Salt Fat Acid Heat
2018NR
Enhanced
2018
7.2
The China Hustle
2018
7.3
The Looming Tower
2018
7.1
Dirty Money
2018
7.9
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018
6.9
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017
7.6
No Stone Unturned
2017
7.0
The Last Shot
2017
6.7
Accidental Anarchist
2017
7.2
City of Ghosts
2017
6.5
Elián
2017
8.0
American Jihad
2017
9.0
Parched
2017
7.2
Water & Power: A California Heist
2017
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Zero Days VR
2017
6.6
The Killing Season
2016
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Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
2016
7.4
Zero Days
2016
6.0
Spring Broke
2016
3.3
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
7.2
Cooked
2016
6.8
The New Yorker Presents
2016
7.8
Billions
2016NR
Every Move You Make
2016
7.3
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
6.6
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
6.5
Sunshine Superman
2015
7.2
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
2015
7.6
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
7.4
What Happened, Miss Simone?
2015
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What's Motivating Hayes
2015NR
Edge of Eighteen
20147.0
Fields of Fear
2014
6.9
Finding Fela
2014
5.0
Ceasefire Massacre
2014
6.9
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
6.9
30 for 30: Soccer Stories
2014
7.4
Death Row Stories
2014
7.0
The Armstrong Lie
2013
6.5
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013
7.5
History of the Eagles
2013
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
7.0
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012
6.9
The Last Gladiators
2012
6.1
Venus and Serena
2012NR
Speaking with Light
2012NR
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012
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Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012
7.8
30 for 30 Shorts
2012
7.0
Catching Hell
2011
6.8
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011
9.0
30 for 30 - ESPN Films
2011NR
Biba! One Island, 879 Votes
2011
6.2
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
6.1
Freakonomics
2010
7.1
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010
5.8
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
20107.0
Dirty Business
2009
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Money-Driven Medicine
2009
6.9
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008
6.9
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008
6.7
Mr. Untouchable
2007
5.2
Love Comes Lately
2007
7.7
No End in Sight
2007NR
Time Piece
2006
6.5
The House Is Burning
2006
7.2
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006
7.5
The Human Behavior Experiments
2006
5.9
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
2006
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3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
200510.0
Behind Those Eyes
2005
7.2
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
7.6
Lightning in a Bottle
2004
7.4
The Blues
2003
6.6
The Soul of a Man
2003
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
6.9
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002NR
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001
5.1
Brooklyn Babylon
2001
7.3
Uppdrag granskning
20019.0
The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power
2000
5.9
Soldiers in the Army of God
2000
7.0
The Huntress
2000NR
The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
1999
6.6
Independent Lens
19998.0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
1998
8.4
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
3.3
The Fifties
1997
7.6
Storyville
1997
4.3
The View
1997
6.4
The Daily Show
1996NR
Inside Japan, Inc.
199210.0
The Pacific Century
199210.0
Manufacturing Miracles
1988NR
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
5.7
The Golden Seal
19838.0
The Ruling Classroom
1980
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Flipper
1980
7.0
The Oscars
1953NR
Two Wolves
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The Sound of Philadelphia
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The Hands That Held the Knives
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Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
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Kids Don't Know What's Best
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Return to Timbuktu
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Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
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Untitled Penny Lane Documentary
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