Laura Poitras Movies

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

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...

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

A filmmaker revisits her evangelical roots to find connection with her estranged father.

Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for identity. Told through 5 vignettes portraying the...

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.

Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi

Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone...

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

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

The story of sixteen men put on trial during for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and...

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