Movies: Laura Poitras
- 2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
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The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisi...
- 2014
Citizenfour (2014)
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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 with her....
- 2017
Strong Island (2017)
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Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging...
- 2018
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
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Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction ...
- 2017
Risk (2017)
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Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth ...
- 2018
The Panama Papers (2018)
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A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story....
- 2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
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Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and j...
- 2023
How to Have an American Baby (2023)
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An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S....
- 2016
Project X (2016)
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A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, PROJECT X reveals the inner workings of a windowless s...
- 2018
In the Absence (2018)
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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 later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding justice from national authorities....
- 2019
The Proposal (2019)
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When artist-turned-filmmaker Jill Magid learns that the archives of Mexico's most famous architect are being held in a private collection, she devises a radical plan to explore the contested legacy of the late Luis Barragán....
- 2019
Ghosts of Sugar Land (2019)
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Shocked when their friend embraces extremism, a group of Muslim Americans in Texas recount their time with him and theories about his fate....
- 2010
The Oath (2010)
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Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court....
- 2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)
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Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers....
- 2019
XY Chelsea (2019)
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The historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Shot over two years and featuring exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes verité with Manning, the film picks up on the momentous day in May when she leaves prison and follows her through her jo...
- 2017
A Night at the Garden (2017)
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Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II....
- 2017
Meeting Snowden (2017)
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Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place. Apparently, Russia is interfering in the US presidential elections while it mourns the death of its ambassador to Turkey. S...
- 2019
Shooting the Mafia (2019)
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Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a brutal murder. Documenting the barbaric rule of the Italian Mafia, she was an unwavering witness to it...
- 2022
Relative (2022)
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A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and long-avoided conversations surface, a family once bound by tradition forges a new path forward....
- 2021
Terror Contagion (2021)
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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 to target journalists and human rights defenders worldwide....