Laura Poitras Movies

Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Osama Bin Laden

Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is...

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In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Towndrow

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

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Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is...

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The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

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Harrowing police scanner audios are set against placid landscapes in this urgent treatise on an American epidemic.

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Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Assange

Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is...

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A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rami Malek

Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yance Ford

A series of racist acts prompts three Mizzou students to pick up cameras and take us inside the student movement that brought down their college...

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Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Assange

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Assange

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Assange

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julian Assange

In an office in India, a cadre of Internet moderators ensures that social media sites are not taken over by bots, scammers, and pornographers. The...

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As prologue to a trilogy of films about 9/11 America, this is the first channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. The film...

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Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War...

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The historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Shot over two years and featuring exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes verité with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chelsea Manning

Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals...

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Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quincy Bryant

When artist-turned-filmmaker Jill Magid learns that the archives of Mexico's most famous architect are being held in a private collection, she...

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Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator...

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The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Towndrow

The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Towndrow

Constructed from footage of every regular-season concussion in the NFL this past year, this film transforms these collisions with terrifying balletic...

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Inspired by Pizzagate, the director re-examines a conspiracy from his youth and uncorks a sometimes funny, sometimes serious meditation on skepticism.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edgar Maddison Welch

Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city...

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The Great Clown Panic of 2016 wasn’t about clowns. It was about you.

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In Japan, earthquake preparedness is a way of life — and a full- blown industry.

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Carl Paladino is a Trump-supporting real estate magnate with a history of making racist remarks. In 2016, he faced opposition for re-election to the...

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In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jayli Fimbres

The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Trump

Donald Trump has become a beloved cult figure for many Russians. The short film uses found footage, fake news and state-controlled political...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Trump

What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?

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Alka Pradhan, James Connell and Sterling Thomas are lawyers for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men facing the death penalty for plotting the 9/11...

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For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Donovan

Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Osama Bin Laden

Since taking office last June, President Rodrigo Duterte has been waging a deadly anti-drug campaign. In the past year, police and vigilantes have...

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For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on...

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Cast: Dave Grossman

Meet two women fighting against race-based gerrymandering in North Carolina: Val Applewhite, a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case, and Moon...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Val Applewhite

Shocked when their friend embraces extremism, a group of Muslim Americans in Texas recount their time with him and theories about his fate.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kc Okoro

A cable system designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies enables communication between an expert and a machine. Time succumbs to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yiting Gao

Gripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.

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When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Park Geun-hye

In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marine Le Pen

See how alt-right icon Steve Bannon’s years as a documentary filmmaker catapulted him to Breitbart News and the Trump White House.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Bannon

With a baited handling of American symbolism, filmmaker RaMell Ross joins five men in the deep South, Alabama, who resurrect the homestead ritual of...

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In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready...

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Cast: Gavin Grimm

New York cab and black car drivers are facing economic and emotional hardship in a city dominated by ride-share apps. As these long standing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bill de Blasio

One week before Donald Trump was elected, 700 workers—many of whom were Trump supporters—walked out of the Momentive chemical plant in...

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The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

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The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Towndrow

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

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In our current world, where worth is often gauged by online popularity, an economy has developed for paying for followers and likes. Through access...

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Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Letizia Battaglia

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mokarameh Saidi Balsini

Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the international community turned elsewhere. What...

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Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mokarameh Saidi Balsini

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mokarameh Saidi Balsini

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mokarameh Saidi Balsini

As prologue to a trilogy of films about 9/11 America, this is the first channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. The film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

As prologue to a trilogy of films about 9/11 America, this is the first channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. The film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

As prologue to a trilogy of films about 9/11 America, this is the first channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. The film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations,...

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This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations,...

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This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations,...

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In his latest film, Braden King ponders the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Switzerland that is said to house over 1 million works of art. A...

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Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi

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The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

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The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nan Goldin

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nan Goldin

A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware...

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The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nan Goldin

An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

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Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Osama Bin Laden

Lina’s plan was simple. She wanted to become a camerawoman. She liked filming details of life and people around her, mainly during a bright...

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Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nina Masseria

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nina Masseria

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nina Masseria

Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone...

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In Johnston County, North Carolina, residents seek answers regarding the role their state may have played in the CIA’s torture program

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Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis....

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Cast: Aboud Shalhoub

When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the...

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Cast: David Byrne

A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elijah Wood

A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barrett Brown

The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the...

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Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nina Masseria