Laura Poitras Movies

What happened when unarmed Black teen Michael Brown was fatally shot by White police officer Darren Wilson?

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

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

A group of NYPD officers risk their livelihood to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

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.

“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...

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...

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