Alex Gibney

137 Shots

In this documentary, law enforcement faces scrutiny as Americans demand justice after police violence claims multiple Black lives in Cleveland.

Release Date:2021-12-15

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:17

The Forever Prisoner

The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.

Release Date:2021-12-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

The First Wave

When Covid-19 hit New York City in 2020, filmmaker Matthew Heineman gained unique access to one of New York’s hardest-hit hospital systems. The resulting film focuses on the doctors, nurses, and patients on the frontlines during the “first wave” from March to June 2020. Their distinct storylines each serve as a microcosm to understand how the city persevered through the worst pandemic in a century

Release Date:2021-11-19

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:28

Zero Days

Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.

Release Date:2016-07-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:226

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.

Release Date:2015-09-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:159

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.

Release Date:2015-08-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:237

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

GOING CLEAR intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.

Release Date:2015-01-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:807

What Happened, Miss Simone?

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.

Release Date:2015-01-22

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:362

Fields of Fear

The film will tell the story of Mackey Sasser, a talented catcher for the New York Mets, who could hit, call pitches, block the plate and fire missiles down to second base but he couldn't throw the ball back to the pitcher. Through interviews with Mackey, his sports psychologists and commentators, as well as footage of his playing days and his treatment (which involved using a baseball to find the boyhood traumas underlying his career-ending anxiety), this program will look at the mental side of sports and probe what takes a player in and out of the "zone".

Release Date:2014-09-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Finding Fela

Fela Anikulapo Kuti created the musical movement Afrobeat and used it as a political forum to oppose the Nigerian dictatorship and advocate for the rights of oppressed people. This is the story of his life, music, and political importance.

Release Date:2014-08-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:18

Ceasefire Massacre

New Jersey, June 18, 1994. Giants Stadium is awash with green as Irish soccer fans arrive to watch Ireland's opening World Cup match against the mighty Italy. The sense of optimism is infectious. The Celtic Tiger is in its infancy. Bill Clinton's decision a few months earlier to grant a visa to Irish Republican leader Gerry Adams has added momentum to an embryonic peace process. Jack Charlton's team walks onto the pitch before 75,000 fervent spectators who've traveled from across the globe for this game.

Release Date:2014-04-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, not just through his music, but also as a social activist. Charting his journey from rhythm and blues to funk, MR. DYNAMITE: THE RISE OF JAMES BROWN features rare and previously unseen footage, photographs and interviews, chronicling the musical ascension of “the hardest working man in show business,” from his first hit, “Please, Please, Please,” in 1956, to his iconic performances at the Apollo Theater, the T.A.M.I. Show, the Paris Olympia and more.

Release Date:2014-04-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:37

The Armstrong Lie

In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong’s confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”

Release Date:2013-09-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self - Narrator

Vote Count:123

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the right to information, perhaps for generations to come. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is an extensive examination of all things related to WikiLeaks and the larger global debate over access to information.

Release Date:2013-05-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:146

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.

Release Date:2012-11-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:58

Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream

If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of billionaires in the United States.

Release Date:2012-11-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:27

The Last Gladiators

Exploring the rough and tumble world of hockey, Academy Award winner Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the Dark Side") looks at the world of the NHL enforcers and specifically the career of Chris "Knuckles" Nilan who helped the Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup.

Release Date:2012-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:24

Venus and Serena

Venus and Serena takes an honest and unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of sisters and tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams. Through the prism of one year in their lives, the film tells the untold story of how these two great stars came to be and how they struggle to stay on top.

Release Date:2012-10-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:11

Catching Hell

After the Chicago Cubs blow an opportunity to reach the World Series in 2003, Cubs fans blame the team's misfortune on fellow fan Steve Bartman, who interfered with a foul ball and prevented Moises Alou from making a catch.

Release Date:2011-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:28

Magic Trip

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.

Release Date:2011-08-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:27

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

An in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Release Date:2010-11-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self - Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:36

Freakonomics

Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.

Release Date:2010-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:119

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.

Release Date:2010-05-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:29

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his multilayered one-man play to the screen as he discusses how a reporter remains objective while covering highly charged issues such as 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's past and the history of Islam. Wright examines the Muslim religion, Al-Qaeda's rise to power and bin Laden's complicated relationship with the rulers of Saudi Arabia in this riveting documentary from Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney.

Release Date:2010-04-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:11

Dirty Business

A documentary about the myth of clean coal. The film reveals the true, hidden environmental and social costs of the 'cheap' nineteenth century technology that still provides more than half the electricity powering today's digital age.

Release Date:2009-10-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

Release Date:2008-07-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:118

Taxi to the Dark Side

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

Release Date:2008-01-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:226

Mr. Untouchable

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord. Follow his life story from his rough childhood to the last days of his life.

Release Date:2007-10-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:17

Love Comes Lately

Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a film about real and imagined longings, the never ending dream of love and the power of fiction.

Release Date:2007-09-09

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:9

The House Is Burning

One day. One night. A group of teenagers struggles to find their way in a world that offers them few choices.

Release Date:2006-11-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:7

The Human Behavior Experiments

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they're capable of anything," says John Huston's character, Noah Cross, in the movie Chinatown -- dialogue that seems especially apt watching this engrossing docu collaboration to be simulcast by Sundance Channel and Court TV. Following up on their "First Amendment Project," the cable nets tap filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) to craft this thought-provoking examination of three controversial psychological studies whose chilling results still resonate today.

Release Date:2006-05-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Release Date:2005-04-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:263

The Soul of a Man

In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.

Release Date:2003-05-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:21

The Huntress

After bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson is killed, his widow and daughter find they are in debt and decide to take on his work. Pilot film for the following series.

Release Date:2000-03-07

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Two Wolves

Follow helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who turned against his fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War to halt the My Lai massacre; but was then branded a traitor and threatened with court-martial, while the perpetrators were pardoned.

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America

This film traces the dramatic rise and fall of workplace cooperation at Eastern Airlines. In so doing, the film uncovers the deep-seated assumptions which underlie our culture of industrial relations and prevent us from breaking out of our industrial impasse.

Release Date:1988-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Ruling Classroom

The Ruling Classroom documents a social studies experiment played out by seventh graders in Mill Valley, California. The students reorganized their classroom as an imaginary country until the principal staged a coup and brought the classroom republic to a halt. The educational experiment was the brainchild of teacher George Muldoon, who suspended the normal social studies curriculum in order to let his students learn about government by constructing it for themselves.

Release Date:1980-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Sound of Philadelphia

Documentary will explore how Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell – together known as "The Mighty Three" – founded the record label Philadelphia International Records and helped craft a signature sound heard in a catalog of over 3,500 songs.

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Musk

A definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Orwell: 2+2=5

Definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell.

Department:Production

Job:Producer

The Bibi Files

Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. Petty vanity and a sense of entitlement lead to corruption and the Netanyahus' unwillingness to give up power. The extreme right senses opportunity in Bibi’s weakness, and the dominos fall.

Release Date:2024-12-13

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:14

Walk with Me

In 2019, casting director Heidi Levitt’s husband Charlie was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. As the symptoms crept in slowly, Levitt realized she had to do something to cope—to create a dialogue and to shed the stigma. She began filming. The resulting documentary depicts her family living with this disease and the ways in which it has irrevocably changed their lives without letting it define them. Levitt’s highly intimate approach captures how they cherish both the solid foundation they have built together and the generous community who walks with them.

Release Date:2024-10-05

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Between Goodbyes

When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to the surface alongside tenderness, humor, and tenacity.

Release Date:2024-09-27

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

Chronicles the career of the titular Grammy Award-winning folk-pop singer-songwriter. The documentary also follows Simon’s journey creating his new album, Seven Psalms. The track on the record pose questions about faith and mortality, particularly during the pandemic, and also feature him contending with his hearing loss. Gibney and Simon also journey through a dreamlike world of storytelling that transcends both time and space, as it moves freely between present and past. The movie also offers a unique peek into Simon’s entire career, from Tom & Jerry to Simon & Garfunkel and the triumphs of Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints.

Release Date:2024-08-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:9

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

Featuring interviews with performers, activists and past employees, this documentary offers a deep dive into the successes and scandals of Pornhub.

Release Date:2023-03-15

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:310

Citizen Ashe

Follows the life and career of Arthur Ashe.

Release Date:2021-12-03

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

Totally Under Control

This documentary puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and how it could have been prevented. Featuring damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, director Alex Gibney reveals a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of presidential leadership.

Release Date:2021-05-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:16

Kingdom of Silence

A political thriller examining the complex relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and how the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi amplified entanglements between the two countries.

Release Date:2020-10-02

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:7

Crazy, Not Insane

Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.

Release Date:2020-03-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:70

Citizen K

The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.

Release Date:2019-12-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:27

Los Últimos Frikis

Despite restrictions beginning under the regime of Fidel Castro, heavy metal band Zeus became icons of the Cuban music scene. Over the decades, the band and their front man, Diony Arce, have challenged the status quo under threat of government suppression. As the bandmates approach their 30th anniversary together in a shifting political and social climate, they embark on a national tour while contemplating the cultural influence of metal as a genre and music as their life's purpose.

Release Date:2019-11-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

Release Date:2019-01-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self - Narrator / Interviewer

Vote Count:257

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Alexis Bloom charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.

Release Date:2018-12-07

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:18

The China Hustle

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.

Release Date:2018-03-30

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:81

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

Release Date:2018-01-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:230

No Stone Unturned

Ireland's victory over Italy at the World Cup in New Jersey in 1994, remains a source of Irish pride. But it is haunted by memories of a massacre: terrorists opened fire and killed six innocents while they watched the match in a small village pub in Northern Ireland. Remarkably, no one was ever charged for the crime. For more than twenty years the victims' families have searched for answers. Now, at last, they may have found them. But what they learn turns a murder mystery into bigger inquiry relevant for us all: what happens when governments cover up the truth?

Release Date:2017-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

Accidental Anarchist

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne became disillusioned, quit his job and started searching for answers.

Release Date:2017-07-23

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:9

Elián

The story of Elián Gonzalez, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits, and how the fight for his future changed the course of U.S.-Cuba relations. Featuring personal testimony, interviews, and a news archive, this documentary recounts Elián’s remarkable rescue on Thanksgiving Day in 1999, after his mother and 10 others fleeing Cuba perished at sea, and the custody battle between the boy’s Cuban father and his Miami-based relatives.

Release Date:2017-04-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:4

Knife

Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense,” according to a press release. Through Rushdie’s wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ personal footage, which has never been seen by the public, the doctor will follow the writer during not only his physical recovery but also the recovery of his spirit and hope for the future. In "Knife,"  Rushdie writes, “It’s a story in which hatred—tthe knife as a metaphor of hate—iis answered and finally overcome by love.”

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Hands That Held the Knives

A deep delve into the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. Described as a thriller 'in the tradition of Graham Greene or John Le Carré', the film will offer access to those involved in the murder of Moise, who was shot inside his home in July 2021. It will also feature secret footage from Haiti’s prisons and an encounter with a fugitive who witnessed the killing.

Department:Production

Job:Producer

City of Ghosts

With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Release Date:2017-07-14

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:72

American Jihad

Documentary probe into the phenomenon of home-grown Jihadism, analyzing the strategic outreach and tactics employed by terrorists in order to reach susceptible members of society and what can be done to prevent it. Featuring intimate stories from former Jihadists radicalized to commit violent acts of terrorism and their families and communities caught in the crosshairs.

Release Date:2017-03-25

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:2

Water & Power: A California Heist

Uncovering the profiteering of the state's water barons and how they affect farmers, average citizens, and unincorporated towns throughout California.

Release Date:2017-01-23

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:12

Zero Days VR

An example of volumetric filmmaking (real world imagery rendered into a 3D space) in this case showcasing the testimony of an NSA whistleblower.

Release Date:2017-01-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley

'Too Hip For the Room' is a feature length documentary exploring the eccentric life and art of the little known jazz humorist Lord Buckley. Archival materials, intriguing presentations of Buckley's most mind bending audio performances, and insightful interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters, Studs Terkel and many others weave together a portrait of a unique American persona. Part preacher, part hipster, Buckley sermonized on everything from hydrogen bombs to Jesus Christ. He counted both Al Capone and Laurence Olivier as fans. During his heyday, the kings and queens of comedy and jazz sat eagerly at his feet to hear the word of 'The Lord', yet he rarely if ever fill a nightclub. Lord Buckley may simply have been 'Too Hip For the Room'.

Release Date:2016-10-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Spring Broke

Documentary charting the raucous history of the infamous spring vacation revelries in Daytona, which started in the early 60s, and by the 1980s led to the arrival of tens of thousands of college students, lured by lust, booze, fun in the sun and eventually, the hope to make it onto MTV.

Release Date:2016-03-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:3

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.

Release Date:2016-03-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:3

Every Move You Make

A documentary film about Internet security, cybercrime, and cyber-espionage. The filmmakers are embedded with the Security Team at Facebook's Menlo Park California headquarters with unprecedented fly-on-the-wall access to intrusions, hacks, and criminal activities. We witness hands-on forensics that uncover the perpetrators, and the fascinating, passionate characters who spend every day on the front lines. Cases and investigations can lead anywhere, worldwide. The filmmakers will be there to follow and film it all in real time. The filmmakers are also working with investigative journalist Brian Krebs, New York Times reporter John Markoff, Reuters reporter Joe Menn, and author Misha Glenny.

Release Date:2016-01-11

Department:Production

Job:Consulting Producer

Sunshine Superman

Documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.

Release Date:2015-05-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:29

What's Motivating Hayes

After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him.

Release Date:2015-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Biba! One Island, 879 Votes

Movie about an election on a third-world island over which two factions wage war!

Release Date:2011-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor, as well as the assassination of a Chilean leader in 1970. Based on a book by journalist Christopher Hitchens, the film includes interviews with historians, political analysts and such journalists as New York Times writer William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter.

Release Date:2002-09-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:26

Flipper

Color UCLA Student Film, shot on video. Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A sardonic meditation on pinball machines and arcade games, and the people who are addicted to them.

Release Date:1980-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary

An intimate and comprehensive exploration of every facet of the iconic multi-hyphenate, with full access to the personal archives of the singer, actor and director, including hundreds of hours of personal, never-before-seen video, photographs, audio recordings, and personal keepsakes from throughout her acclaimed career.

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Agents of Chaos

This two-part documentary pulls back the curtain on Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Release Date:2020-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Narrator

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:31

Laurel Canyon

Featuring all-new, original interviews with Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Michelle Phillips, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Roger McGuinn and more, this uniquely immersive and experiential two-part docuseries takes us back in time to a place where a rustic canyon in the heart of Los Angeles became a musical petri dish.

Release Date:2020-05-31

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:9

The Innocence Files

The personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn.

Release Date:2020-04-15

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:28

Why We Hate

Explore one of humanity’s most primal and destructive emotions – hate. At the heart of this timely series is the notion that if people begin to understand their own minds, they can find ways to work against hate and keep it from spreading.

Release Date:2019-10-13

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:7

Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI

An in-depth look into the long history of conflict between American presidents and the FBI. Inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner’s book, Enemies: A History of the FBI, the series presents the long, complex history of presidents testing the rule of law and the FBI’s job to enforce it.

Release Date:2018-11-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

The Looming Tower

While Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.

Release Date:2018-02-28

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:154

Dirty Money

From crippling payday loans to cars that cheat emissions tests, this investigative series exposes brazen acts of corporate greed and corruption.

Release Date:2018-01-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:167

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge

A chronicle of the last 50 years of American music, politics and popular culture through the perspective of Rolling Stone magazine. An exhilarating visual and musical experience of the magazine’s history featuring performances by a dazzling array of artists and showcasing the groundbreaking work of its writers.

Release Date:2017-11-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:8

Cooked

Explored through the lenses of the four natural elements – fire, water, air and earth – COOKED is an enlightening and compelling look at the evolution of what food means to us through the history of food preparation and its universal ability to connect us. Highlighting our primal human need to cook, the series urges a return to the kitchen to reclaim our lost traditions and to forge a deeper, more meaningful connection to the ingredients and cooking techniques that we use to nourish ourselves.

Release Date:2016-02-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:37

The New Yorker Presents

A groundbreaking series that brings America's most award-winning magazine, The New Yorker, to the screen with documentaries, short narrative films, comedy, poetry, animation, and cartoons from the hands of acclaimed filmmakers and artists.

Release Date:2016-02-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:Narrator

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:5

Billions

A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.

Release Date:2016-01-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:922

Sinatra: All or Nothing at All

An up-close and personal examination of the life, music and career of the legendary entertainer. Told in his own words from hours of archived interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, the documentary weaves the music and images from Sinatra’s life together with rarely seen footage of his famous 1971 “Retirement Concert” in Los Angeles. The film’s narrative is shaped by Sinatra’s song choices for that concert, which Gibney interprets as the singer’s personal guide through his own life.

Release Date:2015-04-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:43

History of the Eagles

Alison Ellwood’s intimate, meticulously crafted patchwork of rare archival material, concert footage, and unseen home movies explores the evolution and enduring popularity of one of America’s truly defining bands.

Release Date:2013-02-15

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:42

Speaking with Light

Dr Edie Widder is a biologist and a deep sea explorer. She's been fascinated with bioluminescent sea creatures since she her very first dives in the ocean. Using her underwater photography, we travel through the cabinet of curiosities that floats beneath the sea: creatures that sparkle, that fizz, that send of puffs of smoke.

Release Date:2012-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Dear Governor Cuomo

'Dear Governor Cuomo' is a concert protest film aimed at influencing New York state's decision to ban hydraulic fracturing - fracking - or adopt it. Featuring local activists including Mark Ruffalo, 'Melissa Leo' , 'Natalie Merchant' , Pete Seeger, Citizen Cope and scientists like Sandra Steingraber, the film - a blend of 'The Last Waltz' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' lays out the science and facts behind the decision and encourages the governor to join the anti-fracking majority in his state. Though focused on the issue in New York, the education, and incredible music, are relevant in the 34 states that already allow fracking.

Release Date:2012-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or invention—directed by the world's most celebrated documentary filmmakers.

Release Date:2012-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Money-Driven Medicine

The U.S. spends twice as much per person on healthcare as the average developed nation, one-sixth of our GDP, yet our outcomes are often worse. The problem is that much of that spending is wasteful – and provides no benefit to the patient. The reason? The U.S. is the only developed nation that has chosen to turn medicine into a largely unregulated, for-profit enterprise.

Release Date:2009-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

No End in Sight

Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over.

Release Date:2007-07-27

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:81

Time Piece

Twelve filmmakers, six from Turkey and six from the United States, come together to take part in this omnibus film. Some approaches literal, others more poetic, each artist reflects upon their own cultural backgrounds through a single short film.

Release Date:2006-12-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Who Killed the Electric Car?

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.

Release Date:2006-08-04

Department:Production

Job:Consulting Producer

Vote Count:182

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities

Imagine the possibilities….. "Possibilities" is the musical event of the year. The album is a series of inspired encounters between Herbie Hancock and world-renowned musicians – including John Mayer, Sting, Trey Anastasio, Annie Lennox, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan, Santana and Angelique Kidjo, Paul Simon, Christina Aguilera, Jonny Lang, Joss Stone, and Raul Midon. Herbie Hancock describes "Poss

Release Date:2006-04-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:6

3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas

3 Doors Down Away From The Sun Live Concert from Houston Texas is a Super Music Experience on DVD - it is better than being in the front row! Filmed in high-definition video and surround sound the hard-driving raw performance and on-stage energy of the band are captured unlike any concert video has ever done before.

Release Date:2005-11-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Behind Those Eyes

Behind Those Eyes provides a magnifying glass into the behind-the-scenes dynamism of Brad Arnold, Matt Roberts, Todd Harrel and Chris Henderson, both on and off the tour. The movie showcases the evolution of the band, and all angles are revealed, from sold-out performances to private moments off-stage, when the visuals are raw, the music uncut, and the energy so real, you'll understand what truly drives 3 Doors Down, and why it has become one of the most explosive rock and roll bands of our era.

Release Date:2005-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Lightning in a Bottle

On February 7th, 2003, renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations commandeered the stage at New York City's Radio City Music Hall to pay tribute to their common heritage and passion - the blues. Shared with thousands of fans in attendance, legendary performers from roots, rock, jazz and rap joined forces for a once-in-a-lifetime "Salute To The Blues" benefit concert whose proceeds went to musical education.

Release Date:2004-02-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:6

Jimi Hendrix and The Blues

Although far from a traditional Blues guitarist, even Hendrix’s most psychedelic guitar solos were steeped in the Blues of Howlin’ Wolf and Buddy Guy. Tracing his career from backup musician to the Isley Brothers to rock n’ roll stardom, Jimi Hendrix and the Blues tells the story of how the greatest guitarist of his generation took the Mississippi Delta Blues into the stratosphere.

Release Date:2001-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Brooklyn Babylon

A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.

Release Date:2001-08-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

Uppdrag granskning

Swedish investigative journalism series known for the use of concealed cameras and microphones.

Release Date:2001-01-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power

Release Date:2000-10-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Soldiers in the Army of God

Connected by the Internet and an unshakable belief in their cause, a tight-knit group of extreme pro-life activists who -- all members of the Army of God -- have turned to violence to abolish abortion. This fascinating documentary examines several of the soldiers involved in the ongoing "battle," including Paul Hill, the man who committed the infamous 1993 murders of two abortion clinic workers in Pensacola, Fla.

Release Date:2000-09-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:6

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

Release Date:1998-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Storyville

Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.

Release Date:1997-11-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

Manufacturing Miracles

Release Date:1988-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Kids Don't Know What's Best

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Return to Timbuktu

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos

A portrait of celebrated filmmaker David Chase: his life, his career and his groundbreaking work on the HBO original series The Sopranos.

Release Date:2024-09-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:19

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

The definitive musical biography of Paul Simon, one of the greatest songwriters (and performers) in the history of rock 'n roll.

Release Date:2024-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

God Save Texas

Returning to their hometowns, Texas filmmakers Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa chronicle the complex history of each city, while examining the toll that the prison system, oil business, and border laws have on those communities.

Release Date:2024-02-27

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:5

Painkiller

The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.

Release Date:2023-08-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:153

The Ruling Class

This documentary series profiles members of the social and business elite who use their outsized influence to manipulate the world around them.

Release Date:2023-08-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:4

Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker

An inside look at the controversial life and career of tennis great Boris Becker—featuring interviews with John McEnroe, Novak Djokovic, Björn Borg, and other icons.

Release Date:2023-04-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:11

Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo

Explore the horrifying story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo (LLDM) and the sexual abuse that scores of members, many of them minors, say they have suffered at the hands of its successive leaders, known as the "Apostles."

Release Date:2022-12-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:4

How to Change Your Mind

Author Michael Pollan leads the way in this docuseries exploring the history and uses of psychedelics, including LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and mescaline.

Release Date:2022-07-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:39

The Line

In covert modern warfare, the line between right and wrong has blurred. This docuseries examines the moral ambiguities of war as embodied by the 2018 case in which a U.S. Navy SEAL platoon accused its chief, Eddie Gallagher, of war crimes.

Release Date:2021-11-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:6

The Crime of the Century

A searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.

Release Date:2021-05-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:32

Tiger

A revealing look at the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods. The series paints an intimate picture of the prodigy whose dedication and obsession with the game of golf not only took his fame and success to new heights, but also down a dark, spiraling road that eventually led to a legendary sports comeback, culminated by his victory at the 2019 Masters.

Release Date:2021-01-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:27

How to Fix a Drug Scandal

The four-part docuseries revolves around Amherst, Massachusetts, drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who became addicted to the narcotics she was supposed to be testing. In covering her tracks, Farak falsified thousands of results and opened the door to overturning hundreds of wrongful convictions.

Release Date:2020-04-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:29

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

From executive producers Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, Shawn Gee and Alex Gibney, each episode of this series focuses on a groundbreaking song pivotal to the evolution of American music and culture. From the early hip-hop battles to verses that sparked hope and inspired change, watch artists deconstruct their composition, revisit the impact the song had on them personally, and dissect the socio-economic and cultural conditions that inspired the landmark work and gave voice to a generation.

Release Date:2019-10-13

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

The Family

An enigmatic conservative Christian group known as the Family wields enormous influence in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of its global ambitions.

Release Date:2019-08-09

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:83

The Clinton Affair

Exploring broader topics including media, feminism, politics and power, the documentary unfolds and traces the twisted, intertwined series of events that led to the impeachment trial that set the nation on the path towards a more staunchly partisan political system. The series features arresting archival footage as well as comprehensive interviews with the people closest to the events including a timely, in-depth reflection on the topic with Monica Lewinsky.

Release Date:2018-11-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:10

Salt Fat Acid Heat

Chef and food writer Samin Nosrat travels the world to explore four basic keys to wonderful cooking, serving up feasts and helpful tips along the way.

Release Date:2018-10-11

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:30

Enhanced

"Enhanced" raises questions about the characters, power struggles, and breakthrough innovations that are driving the greatest athletic performances on the planet.

Release Date:2018-10-02

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

The Last Shot

Basketball players compete in underground, cash-prize tournaments in Mexico. This is their last chance to live their dreams.

Release Date:2017-08-07

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:2

Parched

Documentary series investigating water wars from West Virginia and Michigan to Syria and India including the corporate, political and social interests that are responsible for our water-limited future.

Release Date:2017-03-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

The Killing Season

Follow documentarians Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills as they investigate one of the most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases of our time – the deaths of ten sex workers discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island.

Release Date:2016-11-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:43

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date:2015-08-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:17

Edge of Eighteen

Release Date:2014-10-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:7

30 for 30: Soccer Stories

ESPN Films, creators of the critically-acclaimed 30 for 30 film series, will premiere a new series in April surrounding the 2014 FIFA World Cup on ESPN. 30 for 30: Soccer Stories will include a mix of standalone feature-length and 30-minute-long documentary films from an award winning group of filmmakers telling compelling narratives from around the international soccer landscape.

Release Date:2014-04-15

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6

Death Row Stories

Release Date:2014-03-09

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:4

30 for 30 Shorts

Unprecedented documentary series featuring sports films from today's finest directors.

Release Date:2012-05-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

30 for 30 - ESPN Films

Following on from the success of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, this collection of sports documentaries continues to tell compelling stories from the unique perspective of the filmmakers.

Release Date:2011-03-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

The Blues

The Blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. In each of the seven episodes, a different director explores a stage in the development of the blues. The series originally aired on PBS in the United States.

Release Date:2003-09-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:15

Real Time with Bill Maher

Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.

Release Date:2003-02-21

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:209

The Sexual Century: The Look of Love

Episode of 6-part series that chronicles the profound changes that have characterised human sexuality in the 20th century.

Release Date:1999-10-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:6

Independent Lens

This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.

Release Date:1999-08-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:12

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

To commemorate the first century of American filmmaking, the American Film Institute embarked on a celebration of America's greatest movies from the first 100 years of American cinema — 1896-1996.

Release Date:1998-06-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

The Fifties

Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, based on David Halberstam's bestseller. Among the subjects covered: work and the family; the impact of TV; the Cold War; and the beginnings of the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution.

Release Date:1997-11-30

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:2

The View

ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.

Release Date:1997-08-11

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:96

The Daily Show

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

Release Date:1996-07-22

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:551

Inside Japan, Inc.

Considers the historical, political, and cultural underpinnings of Japan's post-war economic miracle, both in the wealth it brought to the Asia Pacific and in the new model of Asian capitalism it foretold.

Release Date:1992-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Pacific Century

The Pacific Century was a 1992 PBS Emmy Award winning ten part documentary series narrated by Peter Coyote about the rise of the Pacific Rim economies. Alex Gibney was the writer for the series, and Frank Gibney, his father, wrote the companion trade book, The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World. The companion college telecourse, Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia, was written and edited by Mark Borthwick. The series was a co-production of the Pacific Basin Institute and KCTS-TV in Seattle. Principle funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation.

Release Date:1992-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

The Golden Seal

A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. But the greed for her valuable pelt sets off the hunters, including his own father, the local natives, and an ambitious poacher in pursuit the seal. The golden seal and her cub are hunted for a huge bounty on her head and the mythological legend

Release Date:1983-08-12

Department:Editing

Job:Associate Editor

Vote Count:6

Untitled Saeid Mollaei TV Project

Life story of judo champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki.

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:1