Laura Poitras Movies
- 2016
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...
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- 2023
How to Have an American Baby
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An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.
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- 1970
The Rashomon Effect
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What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?
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- 2017
Graven Image
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Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone...
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- 2019
Scenes from a Dry City
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Gripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.
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- 2011
O'Say Can You See 1
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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...
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- 2021
Deathtrap on the East River
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Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi
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- 2018
Discreet Airlift
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In Johnston County, North Carolina, residents seek answers regarding the role their state may have played in the CIA’s torture program
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