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Charles Ferguson

Charles Ferguson

Director, writer and producer · Born March 24, 1955 (71) · San Francisco, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Henry Ferguson (born March 24, 1955) is founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., director and producer of No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq (2007) and Inside Job (2010), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ferguson is also a successful software entrepreneur, writer and authority in technology policy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles H. Ferguson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
March 24, 1955 (71)
From
San Francisco, California, USA
Works as
Director, writer and producer
Titles
4 on MovieCove · 5 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 37 days to Oct 26Down 21% in 30 days

What are Charles Ferguson's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Survival.

Themes

share of theme weight
Power
41%
Survival
24%
Morality
17%
Society
12%
Ideas
6%

What they feel like to watch

their average across 4 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 4

Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0

Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 2

Steady 4 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0

Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0

Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1

Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
3
Contemplative
2
Dread
1
Melancholic
2
Cold
1
Other
2

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 Charles Ferguson's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).

Subscription and free streaming for Charles Ferguson'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

5 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page.

  • Watergate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Show 6 episodes · Director · Creator · Producer · Writer · as Narrator (voice)

  • Invisible Hands(2018)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Time to Choose(2015)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
  • Inside Job(2010)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • No End in Sight(2007)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

Career shape

A full career of 4 titles from 2007 to 2018.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting1 of 4: 0 only acting, 1 with another roleDirecting4 of 4: 0 only directing, 4 with another roleWriting4 of 4: 0 only writing, 4 with another roleProducing2 of 4: 0 only producing, 2 with another roleOther crew1 of 4: 0 only other crew, 1 with another role

4 titles, 4 with more than one role — directing and writing overlap on 4 of them.

By decade

2000s1 · crew2010s3 · 1 acting · 3 crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

How do Charles Ferguson's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 96th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 97th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

97thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Approval · how many liked their films

92ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Reach · how many have seen their films

52ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Midcredits score across 4 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up4

Reviewers score the atmosphere 69/100 and the pacing 60/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles. 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 Charles Ferguson work with?

People who share at least 2 of Charles Ferguson's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Chad Beck shares the most, 4.

Writers

Cinematographers

Producers