Laura Poitras Movies

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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