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Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, HBO’s Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Read More

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“This story is a classic example of truth is more dramatic than fiction. The characters are at once larger-than-life and real.”

— Director Alex Gibney

Sundance 2019
Alex Gibney Unpacks the Culture of Secrecy at Theranos

The Academy Award-winning director explained how Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes set out to change the world — and ended up committing a massive medical fraud.

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Sundance 2019
Alex Gibney Unpacks the Culture of Secrecy at Theranos

At the world premiere of his investigative documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, the Academy Award-winning director explained how Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes set out to change the world — and ended up committing a massive medical fraud.

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