The controversial documentary, taking direct aim at the Obama administration, opened to record numbers in select markets By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer Ted Sarandos on Netflix Nixing Warner ...

Can you remember the last time a documentary actually took your breath away? I can. It happened on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in a theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The film ...

NEW YORK — The word "risky" is thrown around often in the film world, usually when personalities embark on a new direction or a commercially challenging project. But Oscar-nominated director Laura ...

After providing an intimate look at Edward Snowden in her Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour, director Laura Poitras is back, capturing another controversial figure with Risk. The Julian Assange ...

Known for her films My Country, My Country (2006), The Oath (2010), and this year’s Citizenfour, Academy Award-nominated director and producer Laura Poitras doesn’t stray from politically charged ...

Director Laura Poitras won her second Cinema Eye prize for outstanding direction By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour dominated Wednesday night’s 8th annual ...

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With the first two documentaries in her post–9-11 trilogy — My Country, My Country, a portrait of Iraq under American occupation, and The Oath, which focused on two Guantánamo Bay prisoners — Laura ...

Filmmaker Laura Poitras captured the moment former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed himself as the source behind a massive document leak of classified surveillance in 2013. Two years later, ...

Citizenfour director Laura Poitras has filed a lawsuit against the US federal government in a District of Columbia court for “Kafkaesque harassment” she says she’s endured in airports and border ...

The American Film Institute’s AFI Docs festival will pay tribute to “Citizenfour” director Laura Poitras as the festival’s Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree. The award will be presented at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Poitras became a rock star of the documentary world with 2014’s Oscar-winning “Citizenfour,” an explosive and definitive ...