Laura Poitras Movies
- 2017
Clowns
Clowns02017HD
The Great Clown Panic of 2016 wasn’t about clowns. It was about you.
- 2019
Cablestreet
Cablestreet02019HD
A cable system designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies enables communication between an expert and a machine. Time succumbs to...
- 2018
Crime + Punishment
Crime + Punishment6.92018HD
Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator...
- 2012
The Program
The Program92012HD
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...
- 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...
- 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
- 2017
Gavin Grimm vs.
Gavin Grimm vs.52017HD
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...
- 2023
How to Have an American Baby
How to Have an American Baby02023HD
An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.
- 2021
Terror Contagion
Terror Contagion72021HD
A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware...
- 2013
PRISM: Whistleblower
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The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...
- 2018
Adversary
Adversary02018HD
Carl Paladino is a Trump-supporting real estate magnate with a history of making racist remarks. In 2016, he faced opposition for re-election to the...
- 2016
Concerned Student 1950
Concerned Student 195002016HD
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...
- 2019
The Trial
The Trial02019HD
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...
- 2018
The Earth is Humming
The Earth is Humming5.52018HD
In Japan, earthquake preparedness is a way of life — and a full- blown industry.
- 2018
Dancing with Le Pen
Dancing with Le Pen92018HD
In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a...
- 2019
Triple-Chaser
Triple-Chaser02019HD
When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the...
- 2017
The Moderators
The Moderators8.72017HD
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...
- 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.
- 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...