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Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

Known For Directing
Birthday Oct 23, 1953 (71)
Birthplace New York City, New York, USA
Popularity 0.3 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

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.

Known For

Filmography

Totally Under Control

Totally Under Control

2020

as Narrator (voice)

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

2015

as Narrator (voice)

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

2013

as Narrator (voice)

Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side

2008

as Narrator (voice)

The Bibi Files

The Bibi Files

2024

Producer

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

2023

Executive Producer

The First Wave

The First Wave

2021

Executive Producer

137 Shots

137 Shots

2021

Executive Producer

The Forever Prisoner

The Forever Prisoner

2021

Producer

Citizen Ashe

Citizen Ashe

2021

Executive Producer

Crazy, Not Insane

Crazy, Not Insane

2020

Producer

Totally Under Control

Totally Under Control

2020

Producer

Kingdom of Silence

Kingdom of Silence

2020

Executive Producer

The China Hustle

The China Hustle

2018

Executive Producer

Elián

Elián

2017

Executive Producer

Accidental Anarchist

Accidental Anarchist

2017

Executive Producer

City of Ghosts

City of Ghosts

2017

Executive Producer

Water & Power: A California Heist

Water & Power: A California Heist

2017

Executive Producer

No Stone Unturned

No Stone Unturned

2017

Producer

American Jihad

American Jihad

2017

Executive Producer

Zero Days

Zero Days

2016

Producer

Spring Broke

Spring Broke

2016

Executive Producer

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Janis: Little Girl Blue

2015

Producer

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

2014

Executive Producer

Finding Fela

Finding Fela

2014

Producer

The Armstrong Lie

The Armstrong Lie

2013

Producer

Venus and Serena

Venus and Serena

2012

Executive Producer

The Last Gladiators

The Last Gladiators

2012

Producer

Magic Trip

Magic Trip

2011

Producer

Catching Hell

Catching Hell

2011

Executive Producer

Freakonomics

Freakonomics

2010

Producer

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

2010

Producer

Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side

2008

Producer

Mr. Untouchable

Mr. Untouchable

2007

Producer

The House Is Burning

The House Is Burning

2006

Producer

The Soul of a Man

The Soul of a Man

2003

Producer

Brooklyn Babylon

Brooklyn Babylon

2001

Executive Producer

The Huntress

The Huntress

2000

Executive Producer

Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Agents of Chaos

as Narrator

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 23, 2020

The New Yorker Presents

as Narrator

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 16, 2016

The Daily Show

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jul 22, 1996

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 07, 2024

The View

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 11, 1997

Dirty Money

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 26, 2018

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 02, 2015

Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 21, 2003

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