Laura Poitras Filmes

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...

Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator...

The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.

A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively...

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

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...

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...

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place....

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.

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...

See how alt-right icon Steve Bannon’s years as a documentary filmmaker catapulted him to Breitbart News and the Trump White House.

A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware...

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

The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

In our current world, where worth is often gauged by online popularity, an economy has developed for paying for followers and likes. Through access...

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

When artist-turned-filmmaker Jill Magid learns that the archives of Mexico's most famous architect are being held in a private collection, she...

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...

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....