Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Individuals confronting the might of powerful institutions. That thematic focus unites much of the work of documentary filmmaker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It makes sense that investigative documentarian Laura Poitras (Oscar-winning “Citizenfour”) would admire investigative journalist ...

Filmed over a two-year period, The Oath interweaves the stories of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard (now driving a cab in Yemen), and Salim Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged with ...

The filmmaker (‘Citizenfour’) explains how the production brought cameras into some of the world’s major museums to film protests and why she thinks “we should all be questioning” the Purdue Pharma ...

Director Laura Poitras’ documentary “The Oath” is the second installment in a planned trilogy that includes her previous film “My Country, My Country” (2006), which was nominated for an Academy Award, ...

The films of Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler have been competing all season. Also in the running are Guillermo del Toro, Josh Safdie and Chloé Zhao. By Kyle Buchanan In their documentary, Laura ...

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed doesn’t really need more praise. At this point, I probably don’t even need to introduce this beautiful and harrowing documentary, which tells the story of the life, ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with director Laura Poitras about her new documentary, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," a chronicle of photographer Nan Goldin's activism in the opioid epidemic. The ...

Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras will be guest of honor at the 35th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), running from November 9 to 20. Poitras is currently on a packed ...

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 ...

Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Individuals confronting the might of powerful institutions. That thematic focus unites much of the work of documentary ...