Laura Poitras Movies

  • 2017
    The Moderators

    The Moderators

    The Moderators

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    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 Moderators
  • 2011
    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

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

    O'Say Can You See 2
  • 2017
    Duterte's Hell

    Duterte's Hell

    Duterte's Hell

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

    Duterte's Hell
  • 2016
    Concerned Student 1950

    Concerned Student 1950

    Concerned Student 1950

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    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...

    Concerned Student 1950
  • 1970
    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

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

    The Rashomon Effect
  • 2019
    Cablestreet

    Cablestreet

    Cablestreet

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    A cable system designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies enables communication between an expert and a machine. Time succumbs to...

    Cablestreet
  • 2019
    Libre

    Libre

    Libre

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    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...

    Libre
  • 2018
    Concussion Protocol

    Concussion Protocol

    Concussion Protocol

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

    Concussion Protocol
  • 2013
    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

    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...

    PRISM: Whistleblower
  • 2018
    Lasting Marks

    Lasting Marks

    Lasting Marks

    6.82018HD

    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...

    Lasting Marks
  • 2018
    Adversary

    Adversary

    Adversary

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    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...

    Adversary
  • 2016
    Speaking Is Difficult

    Speaking Is Difficult

    Speaking Is Difficult

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

    Speaking Is Difficult
  • 1989
    Renga

    Renga

    Renga

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

    Renga
  • 2017
    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

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    In his latest film, Braden King ponders the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Switzerland that is said to house over 1 million works of art. A...

    National Disintegrations
  • 2021
    Terror Contagion

    Terror Contagion

    Terror Contagion

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    A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware...

    Terror Contagion