Laura Poitras Movies

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

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

Edén Villa (pseudonym) and anonymous Minneapolis residents evade and resist the paramilitary occupation of their city, in a winter landscape...

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

Inspired by Pizzagate, the director re-examines a conspiracy from his youth and uncorks a sometimes funny, sometimes serious meditation on skepticism.

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

Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis....

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...

Lina’s plan was simple. She wanted to become a camerawoman. She liked filming details of life and people around her, mainly during a bright...

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

Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals...

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.

Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the international community turned elsewhere. What...

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

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

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

For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for...

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

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...