---
name: "Peter Gilbert"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-gilbert"
fi1m_id: "peter-gilbert"
imdb_id: "nm0318201"
tmdb_id: 130642
wikidata_id: "Q111936833"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:59:07.777176+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Peter Gilbert

## Identity

Peter Gilbert

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-gilbert
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-gilbert
- **IMDb ID:** nm0318201
- **TMDB ID:** 130642
- **Wikidata ID:** Q111936833
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gilbert_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111936833, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318201/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130642

Producer. Born 1 January 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Also known as:** Peter M. Gilbert
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gilbert_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111936833, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318201/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130642

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hoop Dreams*](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md) (92)

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## Biography

Peter Gilbert is an American documentary filmmaker, producer and cinematographer. Born in 1957 in Chicago, where he grew up, he has worked extensively with Kartemquin Films. He served as cinematographer and co-producer on the 1994 documentary *Hoop Dreams*, which he also helped shoot over several years.

Gilbert has directed and produced other documentaries, including *With All Deliberate Speed* (2004), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination, and co-directed *At the Death House Door* (2008) with Steve James. Earlier credits include cinematography on Barbara Kopple's *American Dream*. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has taught in the Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hoop Dreams* (1994), Fi1m 92, Producer, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Easy Kind* (2024), Producer
- *Searching for Mr. Rugoff* (2019), Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- *Depraved* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Holy Trinity* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Sword of Trust* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Madeline's Madeline* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Golden Exits* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Win It All* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Little Sister* (2016), Executive Producer
- *In the Game* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Life After Hoop Dreams* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Queen of Earth* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Happy Christmas* (2014), Producer
- *The Last Flight of Petr Ginz* (2012), Producer
- *The Dish & the Spoon* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Burning Ice* (2010), Director, Director of Photography
- *At the Death House Door* (2008), Director
- *Deadline* (2004), Executive Producer
- *With All Deliberate Speed* (2004), Director
- *A Time for Dancing* (2002), Director, Producer
- *Married in America* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Vietnam Long Time Coming* (1998), Director
- *Men with Guns* (1998), Associate Producer
- *Prefontaine* (1997), Director of Photography, Producer
- *Baseball* (1994), series, Additional Director of Photography
- *Hoop Dreams* (1994), Director of Photography, Producer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md)
- *Higher Goals* (1992), Producer, Director of Photography
- *American Dream* (1990), Director of Photography
- *The Long Way Home* (1989), Director of Photography

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