Laura Poitras Movies

A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle...

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

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

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

An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

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

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...

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

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

Harrowing police scanner audios are set against placid landscapes in this urgent treatise on an American epidemic.

In Johnston County, North Carolina, residents seek answers regarding the role their state may have played in the CIA’s torture program

Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a...

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

This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations,...

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...

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

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

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

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

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...