Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Laura Poitras

1. The Daily Show (1996– )

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show

A comedy news show featuring humorous takes on top stories.

Stars: Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, Roy Wood Jr.

Votes: 48,180

2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

Unrated | 113 min | Documentary

Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio

Votes: 7,782

3. Real Time with Bill Maher (2003– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show

Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher discusses topical events with guests from various backgrounds.

Stars: Bill Maher, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Moore, Arianna Huffington

Votes: 14,334

4. Relative (III) (2022)

72 min | Documentary

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home-movies, and long-avoided conversations surface, a family once bound by tradition forges a new path forward.

Director: Tracey Arcabasso Smith

Votes: 53

5. Citizenfour (2014)

R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum

Votes: 57,972 | Gross: $2.80M

6. Mogul Mowgli (2020)

89 min | Drama, Music

A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.

Director: Bassam Tariq | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Anjana Vasan, Nabhaan Rizwan

Votes: 3,212

7. Cameraperson (2016)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

Director: Kirsten Johnson | Stars: Kirsten Johnson, Aisha Bukar, Eric W. Davis, Jacques Derrida

Votes: 3,236 | Gross: $0.10M

8. Independent Lens (1999– )

TV-14 | Documentary

Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented ... See full summary »

Stars: America Ferrera, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Mary-Louise Parker

Votes: 634

9. The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)

115 min | Drama, Mystery

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 the power of cinema and its storytellers.

Directors: Anthony Chen, David Lowery, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, Malik Vitthal, Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Yay Yay Bobby Jones, Catherine Machovsky, Yu Zhang, Dongyu Zhou

Votes: 331

10. Marwencol (2010)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Fantasy

Documentary about Mark Hogancamp. After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard. Inspired the movie Welcome to Marwen (2018)

Director: Jeff Malmberg | Stars: Mark Hogancamp, Emmanuel Nneji, Edda Hogancamp, Tom Neubauer

Votes: 3,704 | Gross: $0.11M

11. The Square (2013)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Drama, History

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.

Director: Jehane Noujaim | Stars: Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam

Votes: 9,402 | Gross: $0.12M

12. Strong Island (2017)

TV-MA | 107 min | Documentary, Crime

When filmmaker Yance Ford investigates the 1992 murder of a young Black man, it becomes an achingly personal journey, since the victim, 24-year-old William Ford Jr., was the filmmaker's brother.

Director: Yance Ford | Stars: Yance Ford, Harvey Walker, Kevin Myers, Lauren Ford

Votes: 4,124

13. P.O.V. (1988– )

60 min | Documentary

POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and ... See full summary »

Stars: Stacey Abrams, Rashida Tlaib, Lucy McBath, Veronica Escobar

Votes: 244

14. The Panama Papers (2018)

Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary

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

Director: Alex Winter | Stars: Bastian Obermayer, Katrin Langhans, Frederik Obermaier, Marnia Walker Guevara

Votes: 1,717

15. City of Ghosts (2017)

R | 92 min | Documentary, War

A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. ... See full summary »

Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Abdelaziz Alhamza, Mohamad Almusari, Hamoud Almousa, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

Votes: 4,126 | Gross: $0.13M

16. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary

A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.

Director: RaMell Ross | Stars: Latrenda 'Boosie' Ash, Karmyn Bryant, Korbyn Bryant, Kyrie Bryant

Votes: 2,125 | Gross: $0.11M

17. 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2023 TV Special)

Comedian Hasan Minhaj hosts a celebration of the best in artist-driven film and new television programming.

Director: Lizz Zanin | Stars: Hasan Minhaj, Soji Arai, Kevin Bacon, W. Kamau Bell

Votes: 23

18. Risk (I) (2016)

TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary

The story of WikiLeak's editor-in-chief Julian Assange as seen by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum, Joseph Farrell

Votes: 2,362 | Gross: $0.20M

19. The Oscars (2015 TV Special)

TV-14 | 223 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the year's achievements in film.

Director: Hamish Hamilton | Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Anna Kendrick, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Duvall

Votes: 3,851

20. Democracy Now! (2001– )

60 min | News, Talk-Show

Journalist Amy Goodman hosts this independent news program which features international journalists, grassroots leaders, independent analysts, as well as ordinary people directly affected by world events and U.S. policy.

Stars: Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh, Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Votes: 475

21. Bujaeui gieok (2018)

28 min | Documentary, Short

Documents the sinking of a South Korean Ferry. As a result of the ineptitude of the first response to the emerging situation, hundreds of people, mostly children lost their lives.

Director: Seung-jun Yi

Votes: 1,349

22. 1971 (2014)

Unrated | 79 min | Documentary, History, Thriller

The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau's numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed.

Director: Johanna Hamilton | Stars: Bonnie Raines, John Raines, Bob Williamson, Keith Forsyth

Votes: 912

23. The Oath (2010)

Unrated | 90 min | Documentary

Tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdan, Abu Jandal, Troy Lebane

Votes: 950 | Gross: $0.04M

24. Le grand journal de Canal+ (2004–2017)

60 min | Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show

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Stars: Michel Denisot, Ariane Massenet, Jean-Michel Aphatie, Yann Barthès

Votes: 300

25. A Night at the Garden (2017)

TV-PG | 7 min | Documentary, Short, History

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 II.

Director: Marshall Curry | Star: Fritz Kuhn

Votes: 1,595

26. Mr. Robot_dec0d3d.doc (2016 TV Special)

40 min | Documentary

In Mr. Robot Decoded, creator Sam Esmail, stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater, real-life hacker Jeff Moss and other experts open up about how the show made an extremely technical subject ... See full summary »

Stars: Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Kate Coyne

Votes: 18

27. Flood (I)

Documentary | Filming

I try to mend my broken relationship to my evangelical father in a script. But the more I write our characters to get along, the worse our real relationship gets. He hates that I'm writing ... See full summary »

Director: Katy Scoggin

28. The Loving Story (2011)

Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Drama, History

A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.

Director: Nancy Buirski | Stars: Jane Alexander, Lindsay Almond Jr., Edward L. Ayers, Leon M. Bazile

Votes: 961

29. My Country, My Country (2006)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

Documentary by Oscar winner Laura Poitras about the war in Iraq.

Director: Laura Poitras

Votes: 408

30. Crime + Punishment (2018)

112 min | Documentary

A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

Director: Stephen Maing | Stars: Manuel 'Manny' Gomez, Sandy Gonzales, Rukia Lumumba, Edwin Raymond

Votes: 697 | Gross: $0.02M

31. The Law in These Parts (2011)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History

Can justice truly be served in the occupied territories given the current system of law administered by Israel for Palestinians?

Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

Votes: 400

32. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017)

TV-14 | 95 min | Documentary

The courtroom and publicity battles between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media explode in a sensational trial all about the limits of the First Amendment and the new no holds barred nature of celebrity life in an internet dominated society.

Director: Brian Knappenberger | Stars: A.J. Daulerio, Hulk Hogan, Charles Harder, David Folkenflik

Votes: 4,385

33. The Proposal (II) (2018)

86 min | Documentary

An artist fights to make the archives of Mexico's most famous architect available to the public.

Director: Jill Magid | Stars: Luis Barragán, Jill Magid, Federica Zanco

Votes: 146 | Gross: $0.05M

34. Garbage Dreams (2009)

79 min | Documentary

A look at the lives of Egyptian trash collectors.

Director: Mai Iskander

Votes: 159

35. XY Chelsea (2019)

Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary

A look at the life and career of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the United States Army, who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-male military prison for leaking information about the country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Director: Tim Travers Hawkins | Stars: Chelsea Manning, Nancy Hollander, Vincent J. Ward, Chase Strangio

Votes: 370

36. Church and the Fourth Estate (2020)

33 min | Documentary, Short

A reporter uncovers a case file that reveals a shocking series of child abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Scouts, which rattle the community and implicate the Mormon Church. The case ends up... See full summary »

Director: Brian Knappenberger

Votes: 24

37. Fish Out of Water (I) (2009)

Unrated | 60 min | Documentary, Animation, History

A documentary that faces down the controversies between homosexuality and religion, examining Bible verses quoted as condemnatory, and discussing alternative meanings.

Director: Ky Dickens | Stars: Terri Abbott, James Bankston, Ryan Barrett, Trish Bendix

Votes: 286

38. The Big Picture (2017 Podcast Series)

190 min | Talk-Show

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins review the movies you need to see. Plus: Top 5s, Movie Drafts, Oscars analysis, and more.

Stars: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan, Adam Nayman

Votes: 36

39. 5 Seasons of Revolution (2023)

95 min | Documentary

An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter.

Director: Lina | Stars: Malath Alzoubi, Rima Dali, Bassel Shehadeh, Susu

Votes: 27

40. Tavis Smiley (2004–2017)

30 min | Talk-Show

A diverse panel of experts on various social, political, economic, and legal issues that are key to Detroit's turnaround.

Stars: Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Bernie Sanders, Harry Belafonte

Votes: 411

41. Landfall (2020)

91 min | Documentary

Documentary chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the fraught relationship between the US and Puerto Rico.

Director: Cecilia Aldarondo

Votes: 57

42. Ghosts of Sugar Land (2019)

TV-MA | 21 min | Documentary, Short

A group of suburban Muslims attempt to reconcile the disappearance of a close friend and must learn to live with the consequences of his actions.

Director: Bassam Tariq | Stars: Jennifer Julian, Kc Okoro

Votes: 1,594

43. How to Have an American Baby (2023)

TV-14 | 117 min | Documentary

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

Director: Leslie Tai

Votes: 14

44. Project X (2016)

10 min | Documentary, Short

A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to TITANPOINTE, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA ... See full summary »

Directors: Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras | Stars: Rami Malek, Michelle Williams

Votes: 138

45. Unseen Skies (2021)

98 min | Documentary

Trevor Paglen travels through the desolate Nevada desert while discussing the motivation for his latest and most audacious project: launching a satellite into orbit.

Director: Yaara Bou Melhem | Stars: Amanda Horn, Trevor Paglen

Votes: 32

46. In the Wake of Ghost Ship (2017)

Short

Following the deadly Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, California, DIY and live/work spaces across the country came under immense scrutiny. In nearby Richmond, members of the punk collective ... See full summary »

Director: Jason Blalock

47. The Engineer (2013)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Israel is El Salvador's only criminologist. In one of the world's most dangerous countries, his job is to unearth the hundreds murdered and buried by the rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street.

Directors: Mathew Charles, Juan Luis Passarelli

Votes: 60

48. Easter Snap (2019)

14 min | Documentary, Short

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

Director: RaMell Ross

Votes: 19

49. Zapp (2002– )

30 min | News

The Zapp magazine observes, questions, explains and evaluates the current media coverage.

Stars: Anja Reschke, Inka Schneider, Constantin Schreiber, Kathrin Drehkopf

Votes: 59

50. Flag Wars (2003)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary

"Flag Wars" is a cinema verite documentary that follows the conflicts that arise when gay white professionals move into a black working-class neighborhood. Filmed over a four years in ... See full summary »

Directors: Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras | Stars: Nina Masseria, Floyd Goode, Josephine Goode, Shango Baba Olugbala

Votes: 224