Laura Poitras Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Lasting Marks

    Lasting Marks

    Lasting Marks

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    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...

    Lasting Marks
  • 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
    Duterte's Hell

    Duterte's Hell

    Duterte's Hell

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

    Duterte's Hell
  • 2021
    Terror Contagion

    Terror Contagion

    Terror Contagion

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

    Terror Contagion
  • 2017
    American Carnage

    American Carnage

    American Carnage

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

    American Carnage
  • 2018
    Adversary

    Adversary

    Adversary

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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...

    Adversary
  • 1970
    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

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

    The Rashomon Effect
  • 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
  • 2017
    Clowns

    Clowns

    Clowns

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

    Clowns
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    Cablestreet

    Cablestreet

    Cablestreet

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

    Cablestreet
  • 2003
    Flag Wars

    Flag Wars

    Flag Wars

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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...

    Flag Wars