Laura Poitras Movies

  • 2008
    Capturing Reality

    Capturing Reality

    Capturing Reality

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

    Capturing Reality
  • 2018
    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

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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...

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  • 2019
    Easter Snap

    Easter Snap

    Easter Snap

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

    Easter Snap
  • 2018
    Nuuca

    Nuuca

    Nuuca

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

    Nuuca
  • 2017
    Trump's Lobby

    Trump's Lobby

    Trump's Lobby

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    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...

    Trump's Lobby
  • 2018
    Dancing with Le Pen

    Dancing with Le Pen

    Dancing with Le Pen

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    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...

    Dancing with Le Pen
  • 2019
    Libre

    Libre

    Libre

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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...

    Libre
  • 2017
    Gavin Grimm vs.

    Gavin Grimm vs.

    Gavin Grimm vs.

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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...

    Gavin Grimm vs.
  • 2023
    How to Have an American Baby

    How to Have an American Baby

    How to Have an American Baby

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

    How to Have an American Baby
  • 2017
    A Night at the Garden

    A Night at the Garden

    A Night at the Garden

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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...

    A Night at the Garden
  • 2018
    The Earth is Humming

    The Earth is Humming

    The Earth is Humming

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

    The Earth is Humming
  • 2016
    The Vote

    The Vote

    The Vote

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

    The Vote
  • 2020
    Landfall

    Landfall

    Landfall

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

    Landfall
  • 2012
    The Program

    The Program

    The Program

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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...

    The Program
  • 2006
    My Country, My Country

    My Country, My Country

    My Country, My Country

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

    My Country, My Country
  • 2016
    Like

    Like

    Like

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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...

    Like
  • 2017
    The Moderators

    The Moderators

    The Moderators

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    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...

    The Moderators
  • 2019
    Scenes from a Dry City

    Scenes from a Dry City

    Scenes from a Dry City

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    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.

    Scenes from a Dry City
  • 2013
    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

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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...

    PRISM: Whistleblower
  • 2013
    Death of a Prisoner

    Death of a Prisoner

    Death of a Prisoner

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

    Death of a Prisoner