Laura Poitras Movies

  • 2016
    Project X

    Project X

    Project X

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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...

    Project X
  • 2018
    Our New President

    Our New President

    Our New President

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    The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of...

    Our New President
  • 2018
    The Earth is Humming

    The Earth is Humming

    The Earth is Humming

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

    The Earth is Humming
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

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    What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?

    The Rashomon Effect
  • 2017
    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

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    In his latest film, Braden King ponders the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Switzerland that is said to house over 1 million works of art. A...

    National Disintegrations
  • 2018
    Nuuca

    Nuuca

    Nuuca

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

    Nuuca
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    Shooting the Mafia

    Shooting the Mafia

    Shooting the Mafia

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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...

    Shooting the Mafia
  • 2017
    Clowns

    Clowns

    Clowns

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

    Clowns
  • 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
  • 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
    The Proposal

    The Proposal

    The Proposal

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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...

    The Proposal
  • 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
  • 2022
    Relative

    Relative

    Relative

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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...

    Relative
  • 2019
    Easter Snap

    Easter Snap

    Easter Snap

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    With a baited handling of American symbolism, filmmaker RaMell Ross joins five men in the deep South, Alabama, who resurrect the homestead ritual of...

    Easter Snap
  • 2025
    Cover-Up

    Cover-Up

    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...

    Cover-Up