Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellmancontributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

  • Title: Laura Poitras
  • Popularity: 1.469
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1964-02-02
  • Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Laura Poitras Movies

  • 2014
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    Citizenfour

    Citizenfour

    7.8 2014 HD

    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

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  • 2017
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    Risk

    Risk

    6.7 2017 HD

    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

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  • 2016
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    All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

    All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

    7.7 2016 HD

    Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long...

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  • 2008
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    Capturing Reality

    Capturing Reality

    6.1 2008 HD

    From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

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  • 2017
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    Meeting Snowden

    Meeting Snowden

    7 2017 HD

    Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place....

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  • 2022
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    Relative

    Relative

    8 2022 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    6.5 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    The Oath

    The Oath

    7.4 2010 HD

    Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

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  • 2020
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    Landfall

    Landfall

    1 2020 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    6.5 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    6.5 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    6.5 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    O'Say Can You See 1

    O'Say Can You See 1

    5 2011 HD

    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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  • 2011
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    O'Say Can You See 1

    O'Say Can You See 1

    5 2011 HD

    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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  • 2011
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    O'Say Can You See 1

    O'Say Can You See 1

    5 2011 HD

    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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  • 2011
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    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

    1 2011 HD

    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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  • 2011
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    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

    1 2011 HD

    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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  • 2011
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    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

    1 2011 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    7.4 2022 HD

    The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

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  • 2014
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    Citizenfour

    Citizenfour

    7.8 2014 HD

    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

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  • 2018
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    Lasting Marks

    Lasting Marks

    6.3 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    My Country, My Country

    My Country, My Country

    7.1 2006 HD

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

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  • 2022
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    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    7.4 2022 HD

    The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

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  • 2014
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    Citizenfour

    Citizenfour

    7.8 2014 HD

    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

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  • 2021
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    Terror Contagion

    Terror Contagion

    7 2021 HD

    A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware...

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  • 2017
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    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

    1 2017 HD

    In his latest film, Braden King ponders the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Switzerland that is said to house over 1 million works of art. A...

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  • 2022
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    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    7.4 2022 HD

    The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

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  • 2013
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    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

    1 2013 HD

    The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...

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  • 2013
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    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

    1 2013 HD

    The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...

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  • 2013
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    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

    1 2013 HD

    The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended...

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  • 2021
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    Deathtrap on the East River

    Deathtrap on the East River

    1 2021 HD

    Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi

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  • 2013
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    Death of a Prisoner

    Death of a Prisoner

    4 2013 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    The Program

    The Program

    9 2012 HD

    Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is...

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  • 2012
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    The Program

    The Program

    9 2012 HD

    Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is...

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  • 2013
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    Death of a Prisoner

    Death of a Prisoner

    4 2013 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Speaking Is Difficult

    Speaking Is Difficult

    5.5 2016 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Risk

    Risk

    6.7 2017 HD

    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

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  • 2012
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    The Program

    The Program

    9 2012 HD

    Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is...

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  • 2016
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    Project X

    Project X

    6.3 2016 HD

    A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle...

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  • 2017
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    Strong Island

    Strong Island

    6.4 2017 HD

    Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary...

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  • 2023
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    How to Have an American Baby

    How to Have an American Baby

    1 2023 HD

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

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  • 2010
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    The Oath

    The Oath

    7.4 2010 HD

    Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

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  • 2016
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    Concerned Student 1950

    Concerned Student 1950

    1 2016 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    Risk

    Risk

    6.7 2017 HD

    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

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  • 2017
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    Risk

    Risk

    6.7 2017 HD

    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

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  • 2017
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    Risk

    Risk

    6.7 2017 HD

    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

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  • 2017
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    Risk

    Risk

    6.7 2017 HD

    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

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  • 2003
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    Flag Wars

    Flag Wars

    4.4 2003 HD

    Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

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  • 2023
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    5 Seasons of Revolution

    5 Seasons of Revolution

    1 2023 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    The Moderators

    The Moderators

    8.7 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    O'Say Can You See 1

    O'Say Can You See 1

    5 2011 HD

    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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  • 2003
    imgMovies

    Flag Wars

    Flag Wars

    4.4 2003 HD

    Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

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  • 2003
    imgMovies

    Flag Wars

    Flag Wars

    4.4 2003 HD

    Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

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  • 2003
    imgMovies

    Flag Wars

    Flag Wars

    4.4 2003 HD

    Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

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  • 2017
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    A Night at the Garden

    A Night at the Garden

    6.3 2017 HD

    Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War...

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  • 2017
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    Graven Image

    Graven Image

    1 2017 HD

    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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  • 2018
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    Discreet Airlift

    Discreet Airlift

    1 2018 HD

    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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  • 2016
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    The Journey

    The Journey

    1 2016 HD

    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....

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  • 2019
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    XY Chelsea

    XY Chelsea

    5.9 2019 HD

    The historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Shot over two years and featuring exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes verité with...

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  • 2019
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    Triple-Chaser

    Triple-Chaser

    1 2019 HD

    When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the...

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  • 2017
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    Trump's Lobby

    Trump's Lobby

    7 2017 HD

    Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals...

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  • 2018
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    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    5.9 2018 HD

    Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive...

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  • 2019
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    The Proposal

    The Proposal

    6 2019 HD

    When artist-turned-filmmaker Jill Magid learns that the archives of Mexico's most famous architect are being held in a private collection, she...

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  • 2018
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    Crime + Punishment

    Crime + Punishment

    6.9 2018 HD

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

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  • 2006
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    My Country, My Country

    My Country, My Country

    7.1 2006 HD

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

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  • 2006
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    My Country, My Country

    My Country, My Country

    7.1 2006 HD

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

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  • 2018
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    Concussion Protocol

    Concussion Protocol

    6 2018 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    The Vote

    The Vote

    1 2016 HD

    Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city...

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  • 2017
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    Personal Truth

    Personal Truth

    1 2017 HD

    Inspired by Pizzagate, the director re-examines a conspiracy from his youth and uncorks a sometimes funny, sometimes serious meditation on skepticism.

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  • 2017
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    Clowns

    Clowns

    1 2017 HD

    The Great Clown Panic of 2016 wasn’t about clowns. It was about you.

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  • 2018
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    The Panama Papers

    The Panama Papers

    6.6 2018 HD

    A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break...

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  • 2018
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    The Earth is Humming

    The Earth is Humming

    5.5 2018 HD

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

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  • 2018
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    Adversary

    Adversary

    1 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Nuuca

    Nuuca

    7 2018 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Relatively Free

    Relatively Free

    9 2016 HD

    A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively...

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  • 2018
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    Our New President

    Our New President

    6.5 2018 HD

    The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of...

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  • 2017
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    Our New President

    Our New President

    5 2017 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

    1 1970 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    Libre

    Libre

    5 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2019
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    The Trial

    The Trial

    1 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    The Oath

    The Oath

    7.4 2010 HD

    Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

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  • 2017
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    Duterte's Hell

    Duterte's Hell

    8 2017 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    Conditioned Response

    Conditioned Response

    6.7 2017 HD

    For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on...

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  • 2018
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    Crooked Lines

    Crooked Lines

    1 2018 HD

    Meet two women fighting against race-based gerrymandering in North Carolina: Val Applewhite, a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case, and Moon...

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  • 2019
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    Ghosts of Sugar Land

    Ghosts of Sugar Land

    5.6 2019 HD

    Shocked when their friend embraces extremism, a group of Muslim Americans in Texas recount their time with him and theories about his fate.

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  • 2017
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    Gavin Grimm vs.

    Gavin Grimm vs.

    5 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    American Carnage

    American Carnage

    1 2017 HD

    See how alt-right icon Steve Bannon’s years as a documentary filmmaker catapulted him to Breitbart News and the Trump White House.

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  • 2018
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    Dancing with Le Pen

    Dancing with Le Pen

    9 2018 HD

    In France’s last presidential election, Marine Le Pen, a right-wing candidate, won over 30 per cent of the vote after an attempt to rebrand a...

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  • 2019
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    Easter Snap

    Easter Snap

    4 2019 HD

    With a baited handling of American symbolism, filmmaker RaMell Ross joins five men in the deep South, Alabama, who resurrect the homestead ritual of...

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  • 2018
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    In the Absence

    In the Absence

    7.8 2018 HD

    When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years...

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  • 2019
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    Scenes from a Dry City

    Scenes from a Dry City

    1 2019 HD

    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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  • 2019
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    Cablestreet

    Cablestreet

    1 2019 HD

    A cable system designed by controversial Chinese company Huawei Technologies enables communication between an expert and a machine. Time succumbs to...

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  • 2019
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    Days of Black and Yellow

    Days of Black and Yellow

    1 2019 HD

    New York cab and black car drivers are facing economic and emotional hardship in a city dominated by ride-share apps. As these long standing...

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  • 2017
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    Picket Line

    Picket Line

    1 2017 HD

    One week before Donald Trump was elected, 700 workers—many of whom were Trump supporters—walked out of the Momentive chemical plant in...

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  • 2006
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    My Country, My Country

    My Country, My Country

    7.1 2006 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Death of a Prisoner

    Death of a Prisoner

    4 2013 HD

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

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  • 1989
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    Renga

    Renga

    1 1989 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Like

    Like

    3.6 2016 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    Shooting the Mafia

    Shooting the Mafia

    7.1 2019 HD

    Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a...

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  • 1996
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    The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

    6.4 1996 HD

    The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

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  • 1951
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6 1951 HD

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  • 1970
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6.8 1970 HD

    Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social...

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  • 1970
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6.8 1970 HD

    Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social...

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  • 1970
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6.8 1970 HD

    Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social...

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