Laura Poitras Movies

  • 2011
    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

    O'Say Can You See 2

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

    O'Say Can You See 2
  • 2018
    Lasting Marks

    Lasting Marks

    Lasting Marks

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    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...

    Lasting Marks
  • 2017
    Conditioned Response

    Conditioned Response

    Conditioned Response

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

    Conditioned Response
  • 2021
    Deathtrap on the East River

    Deathtrap on the East River

    Deathtrap on the East River

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    Ongoing investigation by Laura Poitras and Sean Vegezzi

    Deathtrap on the East River
  • 2018
    Concussion Protocol

    Concussion Protocol

    Concussion Protocol

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

    Concussion Protocol
  • 2016
    Speaking Is Difficult

    Speaking Is Difficult

    Speaking Is Difficult

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

    Speaking Is Difficult
  • 2013
    Death of a Prisoner

    Death of a Prisoner

    Death of a Prisoner

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

    Death of a Prisoner
  • 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