Laura Poitras Movies

Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone...

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...

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

Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi

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

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

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

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