Laura Poitras Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2017
    Clowns

    Clowns

    Clowns

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

    Clowns
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    O'Say Can You See 1

    O'Say Can You See 1

    O'Say Can You See 1

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    As prologue to a trilogy of films about 9/11 America, this is the first channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. The film...

    O'Say Can You See 1
  • 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
  • 2017
    Our New President

    Our New President

    Our New President

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    Donald Trump has become a beloved cult figure for many Russians. The short film uses found footage, fake news and state-controlled political...

    Our New President
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

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    This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations,...

    O'Say Can You See 2
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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