Claim: Davis Guggenheim is a film director.

Philip Davis Guggenheim -LRB- born November 3 , 1963 -RRB- is an American film and television director and producer . His credits include NYPD Blue , ER , 24 , Alias , The Shield , Deadwood , and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth , The Road We 've Traveled , Waiting for ` Superman ' and He Named Me Malala . Since 2006 , Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time -LRB- An Inconvenient Truth , It Might Get Loud , and Waiting for ′ Superman ′ -RRB- .