Laura Poitras
Known for: Directing
Born: February 2, 1964
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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Filmography
75 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
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They're Here
2026
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My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
2026
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Flood
2026
7.0
Cover-Up
2025
5.0
5 Seasons of Revolution
2023
10.0
How to Have an American Baby
2023
7.1
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022
7.5
Relative
2022
6.4
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
7.0
Terror Contagion
2021
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Deathtrap on the East River
2021
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Landfall
2020
7.3
Shooting the Mafia
2019
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Cablestreet
2019
5.7
XY Chelsea
2019
6.0
The Proposal
2019
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Triple-Chaser
2019
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Scenes from a Dry City
2019
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The Trial
2019
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Days of Black and Yellow
2019
5.6
Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019
5.0
Libre
2019
4.0
Easter Snap
2019
7.7
In the Absence
2018
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Crooked Lines
2018
6.8
Lasting Marks
2018
6.7
The Panama Papers
2018
6.1
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018
7.0
Nuuca
2018
9.0
Dancing with Le Pen
2018
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Discreet Airlift
2018
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Adversary
2018
5.5
The Earth is Humming
2018
6.0
Concussion Protocol
2018
7.2
Crime + Punishment
2018
6.5
Our New President
2018
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Graven Image
2017
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American Carnage
2017
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Personal Truth
2017
6.3
A Night at the Garden
2017
5.0
Gavin Grimm vs.
2017
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National Disintegrations
2017
8.0
Duterte's Hell
2017
6.7
Conditioned Response
2017
5.0
Our New President
2017
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Picket Line
2017
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Код доступа
2017
6.6
Risk
2017
7.0
Meeting Snowden
2017
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Clowns
2017
8.7
The Moderators
2017
6.4
Strong Island
2017
6.7
Trump's Lobby
2017
9.0
Relatively Free
2016
6.3
Project X
2016
7.4
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
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The Vote
2016
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The Journey
2016
3.9
Like
2016
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Concerned Student 1950
20165.5
Speaking Is Difficult
2016
6.5
The Above
2015
7.7
Citizenfour
20147.7
Evaporating Borders
2014
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PRISM: Whistleblower
2013
4.0
Death of a Prisoner
2013
9.0
The Program
2012
5.7
Keep the Lights On
2012
5.0
O'Say Can You See 1
2011
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O'Say Can You See 2
2011
7.4
The Oath
2010
6.1
Capturing Reality
2008
6.9
My Country, My Country
2006
4.5
Flag Wars
2003
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
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Renga
1989
6.9
Point of View
19886.0
German Film Award
1951NR
The Rashomon Effect
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