Laura Poitras Movies

  • 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
  • 2018
    Crime + Punishment

    Crime + Punishment

    Crime + Punishment

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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...

    Crime + Punishment
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 2017
    Clowns

    Clowns

    Clowns

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

    Clowns
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Concussion Protocol

    Concussion Protocol

    Concussion Protocol

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

    Concussion Protocol
  • 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
  • 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