Poitras, who is a journalist as well as a filmmaker, claims that from 2006 to 2012, and especially after Glenn Greenwald published what Snowden had given him about U.S. surveillance tactics and the ...

“CITIZENFOUR,” a new documentary from Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden and surveillance, will have its world premiere at the upcoming New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center ...

Laura Poitras is famously private. She’s been called shy; she’s known to keep a low profile. Rolling Stone went so far as to deem Edward Snowden’s chosen collaborator “intensely paranoid,” although ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s documentary about Edward Snowden, premiered to a sold-out audience at the New York Film Festival on October 10. The film was not originally part of the festival lineup, ...

Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong (all photos courtesy Radius-TWC) BERLIN — A spirit of “fearlessness and fuck-you” drove NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to make his identity public, ...

When Laura Poitras helped Edward Snowden turn thousands of classified documents into headline news, word spread that he would be the focus of the third installment of her trilogy of documentaries ...

The New York Times Magazine cover story by Peter Maass detailing how Edward Snowden reached out to the two reporters that broke the NSA surveillance story isn't about that surveillance. It's only sort ...

Artist and designer Jason Gandy has created an Edward Snowden–themed installation for the documentarian Laura Poitras that reminds us privacy is illusory Artist and designer Jason Gandy built ...

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 ...