An Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director, Alex Gibney's recent credits include The Trials of Henry Kissinger (writer/producer), in worldwide theatrical release; the HBO documentary Soldiers in the Army of God (senior producer), about the radical fringe of the anti-abortion movement; Speak Truth To Power (producer), a PBS drama special about human rights activists scripted by Ariel Dorfman and starring Sigourney Weaver and Alec Baldwin; Brooklyn Babylon (executive producer), a feature film directed by Marc Levin and featuring the Grammy Award-winning, hip hop group The Roots; and The Huntress (executive producer), a TV movie that became a TV series and aired on the USA Network.

In addition, Gibney served as writer, director and series producer on Sexual Century, a six-part documentary series for ITV and the CBC; The Fifties, an eight-hour documentary mini-series based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam; The Pacific Century, a ten-hour documentary series that was honored with an Emmy Award, two Emmy nominations and the prestigious duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism; and The New Music, about avant-garde jazz musicians John Carter and Bobby Bradford.

Gibney's work has also appeared on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series, ESPN's Sports Century, and the Emmy Award-winning PBS series FRONTLINE. Gibney is a contributor to many publications including Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, Los Angeles Reader, Chicago Reader and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.