Director Alex Gibney (who we interviewed earlier this year) is making a mounting case for a future legacy as the first great documentarian of the 21st century. Hot on the heels of his incisive investigations into the collapse of a major corporation and the collapse of America's wartime moral compass, Gibney has switched gears. Rather than going after an entity whose misdeeds he feels are in dire need of being exposed, he has made what will likely be seen as the definitive filmed biography of the life of someone who was similarly dedicated to exposing the sleaze of the evildoers: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. more ›

Director Alex Gibney was recently nominated for his second consecutive Academy Award for his documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side. Gibney has a history of scathing documentaries investigating corporate and government wrongdoing. His previous film (also nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, examined the shocking levels of corruption at the top of one of America's largest corporations that ultimately led to its downfall, and before that he adapted Christopher Hitchens' damning profile, The Trial of Henry Kissinger for Eugene Jarecki's 2002 documentary. With Taxi, the director takes on the United States' interrogation policy, and the allegations of systematic torture that have been leveled at the Bush Administration in the wake of Abu Ghraib and the deaths of numerous detainees during the course of the war on terror. more ›