Laura Poitras Movies

  • 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
  • 2019
    Days of Black and Yellow

    Days of Black and Yellow

    Days of Black and Yellow

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    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...

    Days of Black and Yellow
  • 2018
    Discreet Airlift

    Discreet Airlift

    Discreet Airlift

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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

    Discreet Airlift
  • 2018
    Crooked Lines

    Crooked Lines

    Crooked Lines

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

    Crooked Lines
  • 2017
    Picket Line

    Picket Line

    Picket Line

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

    Picket Line
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    Triple-Chaser

    Triple-Chaser

    Triple-Chaser

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

    Triple-Chaser
  • 2017
    Personal Truth

    Personal Truth

    Personal Truth

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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.

    Personal Truth
  • 2018
    Crime + Punishment

    Crime + Punishment

    Crime + Punishment

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    A group of NYPD officers risk their livelihood to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

    Crime + Punishment
  • 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
  • 2023
    5 Seasons of Revolution

    5 Seasons of Revolution

    5 Seasons of Revolution

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    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...

    5 Seasons of Revolution
  • 2017
    Graven Image

    Graven Image

    Graven Image

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

    Graven Image
  • 2017
    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

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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...

    National Disintegrations
  • 2021
    Deathtrap on the East River

    Deathtrap on the East River

    Deathtrap on the East River

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    Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi

    Deathtrap on the East River
  • 1989
    Renga

    Renga

    Renga

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

    Renga
  • 2016
    Concerned Student 1950

    Concerned Student 1950

    Concerned Student 1950

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    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...

    Concerned Student 1950
  • 2019
    The Trial

    The Trial

    The Trial

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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...

    The Trial
  • 2016
    Speaking Is Difficult

    Speaking Is Difficult

    Speaking Is Difficult

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

    Speaking Is Difficult