Laura Poitras Movies

  • 2016
    Concerned Student 1950

    Concerned Student 1950

    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...

    Concerned Student 1950
  • 1970
    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

    The Rashomon Effect

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

    The Rashomon Effect
  • 2018
    Dancing with Le Pen

    Dancing with Le Pen

    Dancing with Le Pen

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    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...

    Dancing with Le Pen
  • 2013
    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

    PRISM: Whistleblower

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    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...

    PRISM: Whistleblower
  • 2011
    O'Say Can You See 1

    O'Say Can You See 1

    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...

    O'Say Can You See 1
  • 1989
    Renga

    Renga

    Renga

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

    Renga
  • 2019
    Easter Snap

    Easter Snap

    Easter Snap

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

    Easter Snap
  • 2017
    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

    National Disintegrations

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    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...

    National Disintegrations