Bryan Fogel is an American film director, producer, author, playwright, speaker and human rights activist, best known for the 2017 documentary Icarus, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018. The New York Times described Fogel's film Icarus as "Illuminating" and Variety magazine called it as "A Game Changing Documentary." Icarus premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award "The Orwell Award" and the first ever "Audience Choice" Award of Sundance Film Festival London. The film was acquired in a historic $5 million sale by Netflix and launched globally on August 4, 2017 and won its first Feature Documentary Oscar with Icarus. The evidence brought forward in Icarus through Russian whistle-blower Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, was instrumental in the Olympic Committee's banning of Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Fogel most recently has directed and produced the 2020 American documentary film The Dissident that follows the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's effort to control international dissent. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2020. It is scheduled to be released on December 18, 2020, by Briarcliff Entertainment. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Director, producer and writer
- 5 on MovieCove · 7 credits in all
Known for
What are Bryan Fogel's films like?
Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
A split, not a type: Light 1 · Serious 0 · Dark 3
Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 0 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 1 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Bryan Fogel's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Bryan Fogel's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
7 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.
The Row(2026)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Big Rock Burning (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Icarus: The Aftermath (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
The Dissident(2020)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Icarus(2017)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Jewtopia(2012)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Race to Witch Mountain(2009)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 7 titles, 6 of them dated from 2009 to 2025.
Biggest box office
The Dissident (2020)
Highest rated
Icarus (2017)
Most popular right now
The Row (2026)
Film career
- 2009Screen debut· Race to Witch Mountain
How do Bryan Fogel's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 91st percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 94th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 5 titles are Loved with Detractors.
- Universally Loved1
- Loved with Detractors2
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the pacing 48/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 60, detractors 28. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Bryan Fogel work with?
People who share at least 2 of Bryan Fogel's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Mark Monroe shares the most, 3.
Writers
- Mark MonroeShared titles: The Row (2026), The Dissident (2020), Icarus (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Mark Monroe
Composers and cinematographers
- Adam PetersShared titles: The Row (2026), The Dissident (2020), Icarus (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Adam Peters
- Jake SwantkoShared titles: The Row (2026), The Dissident (2020), Icarus (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Jake Swantko
Producers
- David FialkowShared titles: The Row (2026), The Dissident (2020), Icarus (2017)See all 3 shared titles with David Fialkow
- Nina Sing FialkowShared titles: The Row (2026), The Dissident (2020), Icarus (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Nina Sing Fialkow
- Ibrahim El HelwShared titles: The Row (2026), The Dissident (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Ibrahim El Helw
- Jim SwartzShared titles: The Dissident (2020), Icarus (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Jim Swartz