Laura Poitras Movies

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

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

In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready...

When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the...

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...

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

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

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

Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

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...

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....

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

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...

Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is...

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

A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively...

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...

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

A series of racist acts prompts three Mizzou students to pick up cameras and take us inside the student movement that brought down their college...

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