Laura Poitras Movies

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to...

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

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

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...

Since taking office last June, President Rodrigo Duterte has been waging a deadly anti-drug campaign. In the past year, police and vigilantes have...

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

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

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....

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

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

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

Meet two women fighting against race-based gerrymandering in North Carolina: Val Applewhite, a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case, and Moon...

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

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

For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on...

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

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

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

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

The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.