Laura Poitras Movies

  • 2017
    Clowns

    Clowns

    Clowns

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

    Clowns
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Vote

    The Vote

    The Vote

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    Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city...

    The Vote
  • 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
  • 2017
    Gavin Grimm vs.

    Gavin Grimm vs.

    Gavin Grimm vs.

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    In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready...

    Gavin Grimm vs.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Concerned Student 1950

    Concerned Student 1950

    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...

    Concerned Student 1950
  • 2019
    The Trial

    The Trial

    The Trial

    02019HD

    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
    The Earth is Humming

    The Earth is Humming

    The Earth is Humming

    5.52018HD

    In Japan, earthquake preparedness is a way of life — and a full- blown industry.

    The Earth is Humming
  • 2018
    Dancing with Le Pen

    Dancing with Le Pen

    Dancing with Le Pen

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    In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a...

    Dancing with Le Pen
  • 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
  • 2017
    The Moderators

    The Moderators

    The Moderators

    8.72017HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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