Screenplay: Alex Gibney
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alex Gibney. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012 · Documentary · 106 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Patrick Wall · Geoffrey Robertson · Jeff Anderson · Thomas Doyle
Plot Alex Gibney 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...
7.3
369 votes
7.3
369 votes
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (TV)
2014 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast James Brown
Plot A look at the music career of musician James Brown beginning with his first hit song, "Please, Please, Please," in 1956.
7.2
226 votes
7.2
226 votes
The Armstrong Lie
2013 · Documentary · 122 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Lance Armstrong
Plot Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) masterfully explores the fall of the disgraced cycling champion following the 2009 Tour de France, making use of his extraordinary...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Jason Beghe · Paul Haggis · Tom Cruise · John Travolta
Plot Based on Lawrence Wright’s National Book Award-winning book of the same name, documentarian Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief explores the practices and alleged crimes committed...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008 · Documentary · 121 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Johnny Depp
Plot From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast...
7.2
774 votes
7.2
774 votes
Taxi to the Dark Side
2007 · Documentary · 106 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Plot The persecution of an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan is used to exemplify torture practices used by the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay.
7.2
601 votes
7.2
601 votes
The Crime of the Century (TV Miniseries)
2021 · Documentary · 231 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Plot A searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.
7.2
363 votes
7.2
363 votes
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Documentary · 113 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Plot This documentary is the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
2023 · Documentary · 209 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Paul Simon
Plot Paul Simon follows him inside the studio making his new album Seven Psalms while looking back on his six-decade career with countless musical peaks from Sounds of Silence to Graceland.
7.1
70 votes
7.1
70 votes
Catching Hell
2011 · Documentary · 102 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Plot 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...
7.0
42 votes
7.0
42 votes
How to Change Your Mind (TV Series)
2022 · Documentary · 52 min. · United States
Direction Alison Ellwood · Lucy Walker
Plot It showcases what psychedelics teaches people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression and transcendence.
7.0
286 votes
7.0
286 votes
Zero Days
2016 · Documentary · 116 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Plot This documentary about cyberwarfare explores how a computer virus called Stuxnet, which was allegedly created by the United States and Israel to shut down an Iranian nuclear facility, has ushered...
6.9
150 votes
6.9
150 votes
Totally Under Control
2020 · Documentary · 123 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney · Ophelia Harutyunyan · Suzanne Hillinger
Plot An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic. Premiere: October 13 on several platforms; October...
6.8
30 votes
6.8
30 votes
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010 · Documentary · 117 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Plot An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.
6.8
118 votes
6.8
118 votes
Magic Trip
2011 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney · Alison Ellwood
Plot A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America.
6.8
76 votes
6.8
76 votes
Citizen K
2019 · Documentary · 128 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Vladimir Putin · Leonid Nevzlin · Boris Berezovsky
Plot In 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the richest men in Russia, began a ten-year sentence for tax evasion. Many believed his downfall was challenging then newly elected president Vladimir Putin....
6.7
54 votes
6.7
54 votes
Finding Fela
2014 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Fela Ransam Kuti
Plot Fela Kuti, the late Nigerian musician who spawned Afrobeat and the political movement that accompanied it, has already inspired a successful musical and there's also a Hollywood biopic in the...
6.7
189 votes
6.7
189 votes
Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker
2023 · Documentary · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Boris Becker · John McEnroe · Ion Tiriac · Novak Djokovic
Plot Documental (2023). 2 Episodes. The extraordinary life and career of Boris Becker, a six-time Grand Slam champion. Through a series of candid interviews, the film reckons with Becker’s rise and...
6.6
71 votes
6.6
71 votes
Agents of Chaos (TV Miniseries)
2020 · Documentary · min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Andrew Weissmann · Andrew McCabe
Plot Two-part documentary that explores Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,
6.6
69 votes
6.6
69 votes
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013 · Documentary · 162 min. · United States
Direction Alex Gibney
Cast Julian Assange · Adrian Lamo
6.6
525 votes
6.6
525 votes