
Davis Guggenheim
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 3, 1963
- Birthplace
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an Academy Award-winning American documentary and live action film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood, and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for 'Superman'. Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different films that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman'). Guggenheim's cinematographic projects received severals awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for An Inconvenient Truth, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature for He Named Me Malala and two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
Filmography

Soul Patrol 2026
Executive Producer

A Statement 2026
Executive Producer

Love Apptually 2026
Executive Producer

The Plastic Detox 2026
Executive Producer

The Tale of Silyan 2025
Executive Producer

Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna 2025
Executive Producer

Uvalde Mom 2025
Executive Producer

Mistress Dispeller 2025
Executive Producer

Deaf President Now! 2025
Director, Producer

Rita 2024
Executive Producer

Eternal You 2024
Executive Producer

We Can Be Heroes 2024
Executive Producer

Girls State 2024
Executive Producer

Subject 2023
as Self

Under G-d 2023
Executive Producer

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie 2023
Director, Producer

Mija 2022
Executive Producer

Accepted 2022
Executive Producer

Bitterbrush 2022
Executive Producer

Aftershock 2022
Executive Producer

Swan Song 2021
Executive Producer
- Mistress Dispeller
Mistress Dispeller 2021
Executive Producer

Procession 2021
Executive Producer

At the Ready 2021
Executive Producer

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021
Executive Producer

All These Sons 2021
Executive Producer

Homeroom 2021
Executive Producer
- Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film)
Joe Biden Biography (Biden Convention Film) 2020
Director
- When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film)
When You See Something Wrong (Biden Convention Film) 2020
Director
- The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film)
The Granddaughters (Biden Convention Film) 2020
Director
- An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film)
An Unlikely Friendship: Joe Biden and John McCain (Biden Convention Film) 2020
Director
- Container
Container 2020
Executive Producer
- Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film
Never Just A Job: Biden Convention Film 2020
Director

Time 2020
Executive Producer

Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 2020
Co-Director

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 2020
Executive Producer

Boys State 2020
Executive Producer

A Thousand Cuts 2020
Executive Producer

Where's My Roy Cohn? 2019
Executive Producer
- Paulette
Paulette 2019
Executive Producer

Wolf's Mouth 2019
Executive Producer
- El Vacío
El Vacío 2019
Executive Producer

To Be Queen 2019
Executive Producer

Darlin 2019
Executive Producer

Walk Run Cha-Cha 2019
Executive Producer

Sweetheart Dancers 2019
Executive Producer

Bisbee '17 2018
Executive Producer

The Price of Free 2018
Producer

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power 2017
Executive Producer
- Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film
Barack Obama DNC 2016 Film 2016
Director

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris 2016
Executive Producer

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 2015
Executive Producer

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 11/11/2015 2015
Executive Producer

He Named Me Malala 2015
Director, Producer

Spent: Looking for Change 2014
Executive Producer

Teach 2013
Writer, Director
- The Dream Is Now
The Dream Is Now 2013
Director, Writer
- Widow Detective
Widow Detective 2012
Director

The Road We've Traveled 2012
Director
- Obama 2012 Convention Film
Obama 2012 Convention Film 2012
Director

U2: From the Sky Down 2011
Director, Producer

Waiting for "Superman" 2010
Director, Writer, Camera Operator
- Carissa
Carissa 2008
Executive Producer
- A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film 2008
Director

It Might Get Loud 2008
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- The Tower
The Tower 2008
Executive Producer, Director

Gracie 2007
Director, Writer, Producer
- The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth'
The Making of 'an Inconvenient Truth' 2006
Producer

An Inconvenient Truth 2006
Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator, Executive Producer, Director of Photography

Training Day 2001
Executive Producer

The First Year 2001
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
- Teach
Teach 2001
Director, Director of Photography, Producer

Gossip 2000
Director
- The Art of Norton Simon
The Art of Norton Simon 1999
Director

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them 1992
as Pitcher, Music Supervisor, Co-Producer
- Breaking and Entering
Breaking and Entering 1992
Director

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead 1991
Associate Producer

sex, lies, and videotape 1989
Production Coordinator
Credits from TMDB.