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 ...

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 ...

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 investigative director explains her desire to move on, and muses on the challenges faced by documentarians in recent years. Laura Poitras became a rock star of the documentary world with 2014’s ...

Melissa Block speaks with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras about her new film, Citizenfour that charts her meeting with Edward Snowden and his subsequent revelations about government surveillance.

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 ...

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 will be honored with the inaugural Filmmakers Who Make a Difference Award at this year’s Palm Springs International Film Festival. The award is a part of the ...

“Citizenfour” is the most important documentary of the film year. That doesn’t make it the best, though. That, it seems to me, is another subject altogether. The raw facts of the matter put its ...

“Risk,” Oscar winner Laura Poitras’ new documentary on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, began filming in 2011, well before her remarkable “Citizenfour.” That intimate look at Edward Snowden, as he ...