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Back in 1964, some friends painted a school bus in wild colors and took a cross-country trip, hoping to take in some scenery and freak out the squares. The writer Ken Kesey and his friends the Merry Pranksters crossed the country and back again, filming themselves and their drug-fuelled exploits ...

Video: Inside the Magic Trip

In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters famously crossed the country in a drug and rock 'n' roll-fueled painted bus, bringing heightened meaning to the term "road trip." What’s not so famous is the footage they shot en route. Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney has turned that footage into a new movie called "Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place," and he'll tell us all about it.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney directed three documentaries in 2010 – all of which feature his signature use of popular music. He joins us to talk about linking songs with images in films like “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer."

From 1999 to 2006 he was Attorney General of the state of New York. In 2006, he won his bid for the New York governorship by one of the largest margins in state history. But in the spring of 2008, his name was best known for its involvement with prostitution. A documentary about Eliot Spitzer's meteoric career in politics, called “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” is out in limited release now.

Documentarian Alex Gibney discusses former New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s fall from grace. His film “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” looks at how Spitzer’s crusade against Wall Street corruption as Attorney General led to his rise to power as governor, and gives an account of the prostitution scandal that brought him down. “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” opens in New York Friday, November 5, at Lincoln Plaza and Angelika Film Center.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney discusses the inside story of the corruption scandals that brought down lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He’s joined by former Ohio congressman Bob Ney, who was convicted in the prosecution of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and is featured Gibney’s latest film, "Casino Jack and the United States of ...

Alex Gibney received the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary with “Taxi to the Dark Side.” His newest documentary, “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” is the definitive film biography of this mythic American writer. It opens July 4 at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza ...

Since 2001, the government has detained thousands of people - at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram airbase, to name a few. The legality of many of those detentions has been challenged repeatedly. We get an update on the status of illegal detentions by American forces.

Shayana Kadidal is head lawyer ...