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.
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Movies (101)
Mohabat
2026 · Producer
Musk
2026 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer
A Statement
2026 · Executive Producer
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
2026 · Director, Producer
Edward Said: Between Worlds
2026 · Executive Producer
Speechless
2026 · Executive Producer
Orwell: 2+2=5
2025 · Producer
Bodyguard of Lies
2025 · Producer
The Bibi Files
2024 · Producer
Walk with Me
2024 · Executive Producer
Between Goodbyes
2024 · Executive Producer
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024 · Producer, Director
El clímax del millón: La historia de Pornhub
2023 · Thanks, Executive Producer
137 Disparos
2021 · Executive Producer
Prisionero Para Siempre
2021 · Self- Narrator, Director, Producer
Ciudadano Ashe
2021 · Executive Producer
The First Wave
2021 · Executive Producer
Totally Under Control
2021 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Producer, Director
Kingdom of Silence
2020 · Executive Producer
Loco, No Demente
2020 · Director, Producer, Writer
Citizen K
2019 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer
Los Últimos Frikis
2019 · Executive Producer
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019 · Self - Narrator / Interviewer, Director, Producer, Writer
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
2018 · Executive Producer
The China Hustle
2018 · Executive Producer
Robin Williams: Entra a mi mente
2018 · Producer
No Stone Unturned
2017 · Director, Writer, Producer
Accidental Anarchist
2017 · Executive Producer
City of Ghosts
2017 · Executive Producer
Elián
2017 · Executive Producer
American Jihad
2017 · Executive Producer
Water & Power: A California Heist
2017 · Executive Producer
Zero Days VR
2017 · Executive Producer
Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley
2016 · Executive Producer
Zero Days
2016 · Director, Writer, Producer
Spring Broke
2016 · Executive Producer
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016 · Executive Producer
Every Move You Make
2016 · Consulting Producer
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015 · Producer
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer
Sunshine Superman
2015 · Executive Producer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · Narrator (voice), Producer, Director, Writer
What Happened, Miss Simone?
2015 · Thanks
What's Motivating Hayes
2015 · Executive Producer
Fields of Fear
2014 · Director
Finding Fela
2014 · Producer, Director
Ceasefire Massacre
2014 · Director, Producer
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014 · Writer, Director, Executive Producer
La Mentira de Armstrong
2013 · Self - Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer
Robamos secretos: La historia de Wikileaks
2013 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012 · Director, Writer
The Last Gladiators
2012 · Director, Producer
Venus and Serena
2012 · Executive Producer
Speaking with Light
2012 · Director
Dear Governor Cuomo
2012 · Director
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
2012 · Director
Catching Hell
2011 · Self, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 · Writer, Director, Producer
Biba! One Island, 879 Votes
2011 · Executive Producer
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010 · Self - Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Producer
Freakonomics
2010 · Writer, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010 · Director, Producer, Writer
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
2010 · Producer, Director
Dirty Business
2009 · Producer
Money-Driven Medicine
2009 · Producer
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Producer
Mr. Untouchable
2007 · Producer
Love Comes Lately
2007 · Executive Producer
No End in Sight
2007 · Executive Producer
Time Piece
2006 · Director
The House Is Burning
2006 · Producer
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006 · Consulting Producer
The Human Behavior Experiments
2006 · Director, Producer, Writer
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
2006 · Producer
3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas
2005 · Director, Producer
Behind Those Eyes
2005 · Writer, Director, Producer
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Lightning in a Bottle
2004 · Producer
The Soul of a Man
2003 · Producer, Camera Operator
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002 · Writer, Producer
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001 · Director, Producer
Brooklyn Babylon
2001 · Executive Producer
The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power
2000 · Producer
Soldiers in the Army of God
2000 · Producer
The Huntress
2000 · Executive Producer
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy
1998 · Writer, Director, Producer
Inside Japan, Inc.
1992 · Director
Manufacturing Miracles
1988 · Director, Producer
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988 · Director, Producer, Writer
The Golden Seal
1983 · Associate Editor
The Ruling Classroom
1980 · Director, Producer, Editor, Sound
Flipper
1980 · Director, Writer
Two Wolves
· Producer, Director
The Sound of Philadelphia
· Producer
The Hands That Held the Knives
· Producer
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
· Producer
Return to Timbuktu
· Producer
Untitled Luigi Mangione Documentary
· Director, Executive Producer
Untitled Penny Lane Documentary
· Executive Producer
TV shows (57)
Connect with Jacob Soboroff
2026 · Executive Producer
Mr. Scorsese
2025 · Thanks
The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
2025 · Executive Producer
The Dark Money Game
2025 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
Uno de los nuestros: David Chase y «Los Soprano»
2024 · Self, Producer, Director
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024 · Director, Producer
God Save Texas
2024 · Executive Producer
Medicina letal
2023 · Executive Producer
The Ruling Class
2023 · Executive Producer
El mundo vs. Boris Becker
2023 · Producer, Director, Writer
Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo
2022 · Producer
Cómo cambiar tu mente
2022 · Executive Producer, Writer
La línea
2021 · Executive Producer
El crimen del siglo
2021 · Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
Tiger
2021 · Executive Producer
Agentes del caos
2020 · Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
Laurel Canyon
2020 · Executive Producer
Proyecto Inocencia
2020 · Executive Producer, Director, Creator
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
2020 · Executive Producer
Why We Hate
2019 · Executive Producer, Writer
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019 · Executive Producer, Creator
The Family
2019 · Executive Producer
Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI
2018 · Director, Executive Producer
The Clinton Affair
2018 · Executive Producer
Sal, grasa, ácido, calor
2018 · Executive Producer
Enhanced
2018 · Executive Producer
The Looming Tower
2018 · Executive Producer, Director, Story, Creator
Dirty Money
2018 · Self, Executive Producer, Producer, Director
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017 · Director, Executive Producer
The Last Shot
2017 · Executive Producer
Un mundo sin agua
2017 · Executive Producer
Asesino de Mujeres
2016 · Executive Producer
Cooked
2016 · Director, Executive Producer, Creator
The New Yorker Presents
2016 · Narrator, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
Billions
2016 · Director
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
2015 · Director, Executive Producer
Edge of Eighteen
2014 · Executive Producer
30 for 30: Soccer Stories
2014 · Producer, Director
Death Row Stories
2014 · Executive Producer
History of the Eagles
2013 · Producer
30 for 30 Shorts
2012 · Director
30 for 30 - ESPN Films
2011 · Director
The Blues
2003 · Producer
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Uppdrag granskning
2001 · Writer, Director, Producer
Democracy Now!
2001 · Self
The Sexual Century: The Look of Love
1999 · Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
Independent Lens
1999 · Director, Writer, Producer
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998 · Producer, Writer, Director
The Fifties
1997 · Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
Storyville
1997 · Director
The View
1997 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
The Pacific Century
1992 · Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Mind vs/+ Machine: The Human Story of A.I.
· Executive Producer