Laura Poitras Movies
- 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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- 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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- 2021
Deathtrap on the East River
Deathtrap on the East River02021HD
Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi
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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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- 2019
Scenes from a Dry City
Scenes from a Dry City02019HD
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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- 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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- 2013
Death of a Prisoner
Death of a Prisoner42013HD
The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.
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- 2011
O'Say Can You See 1
O'Say Can You See 152011HD
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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