Laura Poitras Movies
- 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...
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- 2011

O'Say Can You See 2
O'Say Can You See 202011HD
This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations,...
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- 2017

Duterte's Hell
Duterte's Hell82017HD
Since taking office last June, President Rodrigo Duterte has been waging a deadly anti-drug campaign. In the past year, police and vigilantes have...
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- 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...
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- 1970

The Rashomon Effect
The Rashomon Effect01970HD
What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
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- 2019

Cablestreet
Cablestreet02019HD
A cable system designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies enables communication between an expert and a machine. Time succumbs to...
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- 2019

Libre
Libre52019HD
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...
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- 2018

Concussion Protocol
Concussion Protocol62018HD
Constructed from footage of every regular-season concussion in the NFL this past year, this film transforms these collisions with terrifying balletic...
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- 2013

PRISM: Whistleblower
PRISM: Whistleblower02013HD
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...
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- 2018

Lasting Marks
Lasting Marks6.82018HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- 1989

Renga
Renga01989HD
“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries....
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- 2017

National Disintegrations
National Disintegrations02017HD
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...
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- 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...
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