Laura Poitras Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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....

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 our current world, where worth is often gauged by online popularity, an economy has developed for paying for followers and likes. Through access...

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

Lina’s plan was simple. She wanted to become a camerawoman. She liked filming details of life and people around her, mainly during a bright...

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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