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Alex Gibney

Index Alex Gibney

Philip Alexander "Alex" Gibney (born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer. [1]

66 relations: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Afghanistan, Arbitration, Ayn Rand, Bachelor's degree, Bagram Airfield, Cannes Film Festival, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Charles Burnett (director), Chelsea Manning, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Democracy Now!, Dilawar (torture victim), Dirty Money (2018 TV series), Documentary film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, ESPN, Esquire (magazine), Film director, Film producer, Finding Fela, Frank Gibney, Freakonomics (film), Going Clear (film), Gonzo journalism, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, HuffPost, Hunter S. Thompson, Julian Assange, Lance Armstrong, Magic Trip, Martin Scorsese, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, New York City, No End in Sight, Objectivist movement, Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, PBS, Pomfret School, Robert K. Elder, Steve Bartman incident, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Sundance Film Festival, Taxi to the Dark Side, Taxicab, The Armstrong Lie, The Atlantic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Exterminating Angel, The Film That Changed My Life, ..., The New York Times, The Pacific Century, ThinkFilm, Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Utne Reader, Vanity Fair (magazine), We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks, William Sloane Coffin, Wim Wenders, Yale University, Zero Days, 2003 National League Championship Series, 30 for 30. Expand index (16 more) »

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Arbitration

Arbitration, a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), is a way to resolve disputes outside the courts.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Bagram Airfield

Bagram Airfield also known as Bagram Air Base is the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

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Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Casino Jack and the United States of Money is a 2010 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney.

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Charles Burnett (director)

Charles Burnett (born April 13, 1944) is an American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer.

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Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist, whistleblower, politician, and former United States Army soldier.

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Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer is a documentary directed by Alex Gibney about former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and the sex scandal that derailed his political career.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Dilawar (torture victim)

Dilawar (born c. 1979 – December 10, 2002), also known as Dilawar of Yakubi, was an Afghan taxi driver who was tortured to death by US army soldiers at the Bagram Collection Point, a US military detention center in Afghanistan.

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Dirty Money (2018 TV series)

Dirty Money is an American documentary television series which tells stories of corporate corruption.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 American documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a study of one of the largest business scandals in American history.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Finding Fela

Finding Fela is a 2014 documentary film by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, portraying and analysing the life of pioneering musician Fela Kuti.

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Frank Gibney

Frank Bray Gibney (September 21, 1924 – April 9, 2006) was an American journalist, editor, writer and scholar.

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Freakonomics (film)

Freakonomics: The Movie is a 2010 American documentary film based on the 2005 book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by economist Steven D. Levitt and writer Stephen J. Dubner.

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Going Clear (film)

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is a 2015 documentary film about Scientology.

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Gonzo journalism

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.

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

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.

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Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange (born Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the editor of WikiLeaks.

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Lance Armstrong

Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is a former American professional road racing cyclist.

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Magic Trip

Magic Trip is a 2011 documentary film directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney, about Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, and the Merry Pranksters.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God is a 2012 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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No End in Sight

No End in Sight is a 2007 documentary film about the American occupation of Iraq.

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Objectivist movement

The Objectivist movement is a movement of individuals who seek to study and advance Objectivism, the philosophy expounded by novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand.

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Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream

Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream is a 2012 documentary film about the wealth gap in the United States directed by Alex Gibney.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Pomfret School

Pomfret School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory boarding and day school in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States, serving 360 students in grades 9 through 12 and post-graduates.

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Robert K. Elder

Robert K. Elder (born January 20, 1976) is an American journalist, author and film columnist.

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Steve Bartman incident

During a Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason game played between the Chicago Cubs and the Florida Marlins on October 14, 2003, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, spectator Steve Bartman disrupted the game by intercepting a potential catch.

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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is a documentary film about Steve Jobs directed and produced by Alex Gibney.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah.

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Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by him, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman.

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Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.

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The Armstrong Lie

The Armstrong Lie is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney about the cyclist Lance Armstrong.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal of arts, culture, and politics published monthly in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Exterminating Angel

The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal, and produced by her then-husband Gustavo Alatriste.

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The Film That Changed My Life

The Film That Changed My Life (also known as The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark) is a non-fiction collection of interviews compiled by American journalist, author and film columnist Robert K. Elder.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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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.

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ThinkFilm

ThinkFilm (stylized as TH!NKFilm) was a U.S. film distribution company founded in September 2001.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually.

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Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival is a prominent film festival held in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, showcasing a diverse selection of independent films.

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UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT), is one of the 11 schools within the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) located in Los Angeles, California.

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Utne Reader

Utne Reader (a.k.a. Utne) is a quarterly American magazine that collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment, generally from alternative media sources including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and DVDs.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a 2013 American independent documentary film about the organization started by Julian Assange, and people involved in the collection and distribution of secret information and media by whistleblowers.

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WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources.

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William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin Jr. (June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006) was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist.

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Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Zero Days

Zero Days is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney.

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2003 National League Championship Series

The 2003 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a Major League Baseball playoff series played from October 7 to 15 to determine the champion of the National League, between the Central Division champion Chicago Cubs and the wild-card qualifying Florida Marlins.

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30 for 30

30 for 30 is the umbrella title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Gibney

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