Laura Poitras Movies

The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

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...

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

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

In Johnston County, North Carolina, residents seek answers regarding the role their state may have played in the CIA’s torture program

Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for identity. Told through 5 vignettes portraying the...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi