
Alex Gibney
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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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Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
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Crazy, Not Insane (2020)
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Zero Days (2016)
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)
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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)
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Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026)
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Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
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The Armstrong Lie (2013)
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
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Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
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Two Wolves (—)
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The House Is Burning (2006)
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The Forever Prisoner (2021)
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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
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Lightning in a Bottle (2004)
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Freakonomics (2010)
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The Bibi Files (2024)
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The Soul of a Man (2003)
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Citizen K (2019)
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No Stone Unturned (2017)
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Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
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The Last Gladiators (2012)
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Totally Under Control (2021)
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The Sound of Philadelphia (—)
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Finding Fela (2014)
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
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In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (2024)
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Bodyguard of Lies (2025)
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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)
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Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary (—)
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My Trip to Al-Qaeda (2010)
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Musk (—)
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The Hands That Held the Knives (—)
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Ceasefire Massacre (2014)
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Mr. Untouchable (2007)
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Soldiers in the Army of God (2000)
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Behind Those Eyes (2005)
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The Human Behavior Experiments (2006)
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Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America (1988)
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The Ruling Classroom (1980)
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Dirty Business (2009)
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Return to Timbuktu (—)
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Jimi Hendrix and The Blues (2001)
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Manufacturing Miracles (1988)
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Money-Driven Medicine (2009)
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3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas (2005)
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The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power (2000)
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: Love Crazy (1998)
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Kids Don't Know What's Best (—)
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