And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

Davis Guggenheim is one of America's most brilliant and impactful documentarians.

He may know him through his work on an inconvenient truth, the Academy Award winning film about

Al Gore's campaign against climate change, or waiting for Superman about the state of

public education as it impacts on families in the inner city.

Well, he comes by that, honestly, his father Charles Guggenheim was also an Academy Award

documentarian and one of the early producers of political media.

I met Davis when we collaborated on films about Barack Obama for the 2008 and 2012 Democratic

conventions and came to appreciate his talent and his wisdom.

I sat down in LA with him a few weeks ago to talk about his life and career.

Davis Guggenheim, my friend, so good to see you.

We first met during the Obama campaign in 2008, but your name was obviously familiar to

me, not just through your own work, but because I was a media consultant making television ads

for candidates and your dad's name was familiar to me.

Tell me about him and about growing up around a documentary and one of the first media

consultants in modern politics.

One of my first memories was 1968.

My father waking me up and saying, do you want to go to work with me today?

And remember saying it's dark dad.

Why would you go to work in the dark?

And he said, come with me.

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