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The Armstrong Lie is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney about the cyclist Lance Armstrong. Originally titled The Road Back, the film takes its name from "Le Mensonge Armstrong", the headline of the August 23, 2005 issue of the French newspaper L'Équipe.
In 2008, Academy Award® winning filmmaker Alex Gibney set out to make a documentary about Lance Armstrong's comeback to the world of competitive cycling. Widely regarded as one of the most ...
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- Sony Pictures Classics
Nov 14, 2013 · The Armstrong Lie: Directed by Alex Gibney. With Reed Albergotti, Betsy Andreu, Frankie Andreu, Grace Elizabeth Armstrong. A documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.
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- Documentary, Biography, Sport
- Alex Gibney
- 2013-11-14
Academy Award® winning filmmaker, Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks; Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) directs The ARMSTRONG Lie, a documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.
Smartly constructed and scathingly sharp, The Armstrong Lie presents an effective indictment of its unscrupulous subject -- as well as the sports culture that spawned him. Filmmaker Alex...
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This documentary follows cyclist Lance Armstrong from his 2009 comeback effort through his shocking 2012 confession of performance-enhancing drug use. Watch trailers & learn more.
Nov 8, 2013 · There are two general narratives about Lance Armstrong, and in his new documentary, "The Armstrong Lie," Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney tackles them both, to varying degrees of success. The first is the fall from grace of an all-American hero following his unprecedented seven-straight-wins at the Tour de France between 1999 and ...
