Laura Poitras Movies
- 2013

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.
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- 2017

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...
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- 1970

The Rashomon Effect
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What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
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- 2017

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...
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- 2021

Deathtrap on the East River
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Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi
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- 2018

In the Absence
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When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years...
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- 2019

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...
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- 2016

Speaking Is Difficult
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Harrowing police scanner audios are set against placid landscapes in this urgent treatise on an American epidemic.
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- 2011

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,...
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- 2017

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...
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- 2023

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...
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- 2019

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.
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- 2016

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...
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- 2017

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...
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- 2017

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...
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- 2006

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.
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- 2017

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...
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- 2018

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...
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- 2025

Cover-Up
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For the past six decades, Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the U.S. This arresting documentary, released at a...
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- 2014

Citizenfour
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In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...
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