Laura Poitras Movies
- 2016
Project X
Project X6.32016HD
A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle...
- 2018
Our New President
Our New President6.52018HD
The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of...
- 2018
The Earth is Humming
The Earth is Humming5.52018HD
In Japan, earthquake preparedness is a way of life — and a full- blown industry.
- 2017
Our New President
Our New President52017HD
Donald Trump has become a beloved cult figure for many Russians. The short film uses found footage, fake news and state-controlled political...
- 2023
How to Have an American Baby
How to Have an American Baby102023HD
An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.
- 1970
The Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect01970HD
What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
- 2017
National Disintegrations
National Disintegrations02017HD
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...
- 2018
Nuuca
Nuuca72018HD
In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...
- 2003
Flag Wars
Flag Wars4.42003HD
Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...
- 2016
Speaking Is Difficult
Speaking Is Difficult5.52016HD
Harrowing police scanner audios are set against placid landscapes in this urgent treatise on an American epidemic.
- 2018
Discreet Airlift
Discreet Airlift02018HD
In Johnston County, North Carolina, residents seek answers regarding the role their state may have played in the CIA’s torture program
- 2019
Shooting the Mafia
Shooting the Mafia7.42019HD
Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a...
- 2017
Clowns
Clowns02017HD
The Great Clown Panic of 2016 wasn’t about clowns. It was about you.
- 2011
O'Say Can You See 2
O'Say Can You See 202011HD
This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations,...
- 2011
O'Say Can You See 1
O'Say Can You See 152011HD
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...
- 2019
The Proposal
The Proposal62019HD
When artist-turned-filmmaker Jill Magid learns that the archives of Mexico's most famous architect are being held in a private collection, she...
- 2016
The Vote
The Vote02016HD
Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city...
- 2022
Relative
Relative82022HD
A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...
- 2019
Easter Snap
Easter Snap42019HD
With a baited handling of American symbolism, filmmaker RaMell Ross joins five men in the deep South, Alabama, who resurrect the homestead ritual of...
- 2025
Cover-Up
Cover-Up02025HD
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...