Alex Gibney

Known for DirectingBorn 1953-10-23 (age 72)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Behind Those Eyes

The Pacific Century

Manufacturing Miracles

Parched

30 for 30 - ESPN Films

The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

Mr. Scorsese

Kingdom of Silence

Laurel Canyon

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

American Jihad

Salt Fat Acid Heat

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

How to Change Your Mind

The Crime of the Century

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

Bodyguard of Lies

30 for 30 Shorts

Billions

The Ruling Classroom

No Stone Unturned

No End in Sight

The Forever Prisoner

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

History of the Eagles

Lightning in a Bottle

The Innocence Files

The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster

Storyville

The Human Behavior Experiments

Death Row Stories

What Happened, Miss Simone?

The Looming Tower

Zero Days

The Dark Money Game

Janis: Little Girl Blue

The Blues

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Painkiller

Crazy, Not Insane

Orwell: 2+2=5

The China Hustle

Water & Power: A California Heist

The Bibi Files

City of Ghosts

Cooked