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Host Chuck Braverman interviews Alex Gibney for Episode #50.
Alex Gibney’s Filmography (as director)[edit]
- The Ruling Classroom (1980)
- Manufacturing Miracles (1988)
- Inside Japan, Inc.” (1992)
- The Fifties (1997), television mini-series documentary
- AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies: Love Crazy (1998; TV special documentary)
- The Sexual Century: Sexual Explorers (1999; TV movie)
- The Sexual Century: The Sexual Revolution (1999; TV movie)
- Jimi Hendrix and the Blues (2001)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005; documentary)
- 3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun, Live from Houston, Texas (2005)
- Behind Those Eyes (2005; documentary)
- Time Piece (segment “Empire of the Pushcarts”) (2006; documentary)
- The Human Behavior Experiments (2006; TV movie documentary)
- Taxi to the Dark Side (2007; documentary)
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008; documentary)
- Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010; documentary)
- My Trip to Al Qaeda (2010; documentary)
- Freakonomics (segment Pure Corruption) (2010; documentary)
- Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010; documentary)
- Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place (2011; documentary)
- Catching Hell (2011; ESPN Films documentary)
- The Last Gladiators (2011)
- Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012; documentary)
- Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (2012; documentary)
- We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013; documentary)
- The Armstrong Lie (2013; documentary)
- Finding Fela (2014; documentary)
- Ceasefire Massacre (2014) ESPN 30 for 30: Soccer Stories
- Fields of Fear (2014) ESPN 30 for 30 Short
- Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014; documentary)
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015; documentary)
- Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015; documentary)
- Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015; TV mini-series documentary)
- Zero Days (2016; documentary)
- Cooked (2016; TV Mini-Series documentary, episode “Fire”)
- Billions (2017; TV series, episode “Optimal Play”)
- No Stone Unturned (2017; documentary)
- Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge (2017; documentary)
- Dirty Money (2018; TV series documentary, episode “Hard Nox”)
- The Looming Tower (2018; TV mini-series, episode “Now it Begins…”)
- Enemies: The President, Justice and the FBI (2018; TV series documentary, episode “You’re Fired”)
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019; documentary)
- Citizen K (2019)
Chuck Braverman is the co-founder of the original Westdoc Conference (with international documentary distributor Richard Propper) and the CEO and executive producer of the new Westdoc Online. He is also a long time documentary filmmaker with an Oscar nomination and a DGA win for different films. He has run his own successful production company, been a senior studio executive at Sony, a teacher at USC Cinema and Cal State University Northridge, the Chair of the Film Department at Brooks Institute, the director of many scripted television episodes, several Movies of the Week, an indie feature film, and a long list of nonfiction films and series.