Director
Alex Gibney
73 years · New York City, New York, USA · 48 films
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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Best known for
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Plex
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019 · Self - Narrator / Interviewer, Director
On HBO Max
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Director, Screenplay
On Kanopy
Zero Days
2016 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018 · Producer
On HBO Max
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Plex
Filmography 47
Musk
2026 · Narrator (voice), Director
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
2026 · Director, Producer
Orwell: 2+2=5
2025 · Producer
On Hulu
Bodyguard of Lies
2025 · Producer
On Paramount Plus Premium
The Bibi Files
2024 · Producer
On Kanopy
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2024 · Director, Producer
The Forever Prisoner
2021 · Self- Narrator, Director
On HBO Max
Totally Under Control
2021 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Kanopy
Crazy, Not Insane
2020 · Director, Producer
On HBO Max
Citizen K
2019 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Kanopy
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019 · Self - Narrator / Interviewer, Director
On HBO Max
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018 · Producer
On HBO Max
No Stone Unturned
2017 · Director, Writer
Zero Days
2016 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015 · Producer
On Plex
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Philo
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Plex
Finding Fela
2014 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Ceasefire Massacre
2014 · Director, Producer
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014 · Writer, Director
On Amazon Prime Video
The Armstrong Lie
2013 · Self - Narrator, Director
On The Roku Channel
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013 · Narrator (voice), Director
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director
On HBO Max
Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012 · Director, Writer