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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A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they l...
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Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they're capable of a...
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An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo B...
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Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lan...
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Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everythin...
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A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abr...
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An in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer....
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Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his multilayered one-man play to the screen as he discusses how a ...
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A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in th...
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After the Chicago Cubs blow an opportunity to reach the World Series in 2003, Cubs fans blame the te...
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If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medali...
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In ice hockey, no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the sta...
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Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from ...
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In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The proje...
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Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms hav...
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James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, J...
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The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they att...
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When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn...
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Ireland's victory over Italy at the World Cup in New Jersey in 1994, remains a source of Irish pride...
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With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became t...
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Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewi...
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The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of ...
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This documentary puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and ho...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Musk (2026) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 2 | The Forever Prisoner (2021) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 3 | Totally Under Control (2021) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 4 | Crazy, Not Insane (2020) | Director / Writer | 7.7 | |
| 5 | The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) | Director / Writer | 7.4 | |
| 6 | No Stone Unturned (2017) | Director / Writer | 10 | |
| 7 | Zero Days (2016) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 8 | Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) | Director / Writer | 7.9 | |
| 9 | Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) | Director / Writer | 6.9 | |
| 10 | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 11 | The Armstrong Lie (2013) | Director / Writer | 7.5 | |
| 12 | We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) | Director / Writer | 6.7 | |
| 13 | Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream (2012) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 14 | The Last Gladiators (2012) | Director / Writer | 6.5 | |
| 15 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 16 | Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 17 | Catching Hell (2011) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 18 | Freakonomics (2010) | Director / Writer | 6.6 | |
| 19 | Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 20 | Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 21 | My Trip to Al-Qaeda (2010) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 22 | Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) Oscars 2008 | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 23 | Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) | Director / Writer | 8.5 | |
| 24 | The Human Behavior Experiments (2006) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 25 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) Oscars 2006 | Director / Writer | 6.5 |

