Directed credits
19
Established
Strong directing catalog.
Director
Laura Poitras
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.7
Low visibility
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Directed movies: 18Directed series: 1All crew credits: 68
TMDB ID: 220691
IMDb ID: nm0688636
Known for: Directing
Born: February 2, 1964
Age: 62
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1988 - 2025
Years active: 38
Average TMDB rating: 6.69
Wikidata: Q6499321
Frequent jobs
Director (18)Director of Photography (1)Executive Producer (44)Producer (4)Thanks (1)
Biography
Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellmancontributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Laura Poitras.
6.9
Cover-Up
Director
2025 Movie
7.2
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Director
2022 Movie
6.5
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Director
2021 Movie
7.0
Terror Contagion
Director
2021 Movie
Deathtrap on the East River
Director
2021 Movie
Triple-Chaser
Director
2019 Movie
6.6
Risk
Director
2017 Movie
6.3
Project X
Director
2016 Movie
7.7
Citizenfour
Director
2014 Movie
PRISM: Whistleblower
Director
2013 Movie
4.0
Death of a Prisoner
Director
2013 Movie
9.0
The Program
Director
2012 Movie
5.0
O'Say Can You See 1
Director of Photography
2011 Movie
O'Say Can You See 2
Director
2011 Movie
7.4
The Oath
Director
2010 Movie
6.9
My Country, My Country
Director
2006 Movie
4.1
Flag Wars
Director
2003 Movie
Renga
Director
1989 Movie
Series
Directed Series
Series directed by Laura Poitras.
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Laura Poitras.
Series
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Laura Poitras.
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Laura Poitras.
Picket Line
Executive Producer
2017 Movie
6.9
Cover-Up
Director
2025 Movie
Crooked Lines
Executive Producer
2018 Movie
Clowns
Producer
2017 Movie
3.9
Like
Executive Producer
2016 Movie
7.5
Relative
Producer
2022 Movie
Flood
Executive Producer
2025 Movie
4.1
Flag Wars
Director
2003 Movie
7.7
Citizenfour
Director
2014 Movie
6.7
Conditioned Response
Executive Producer
2017 Movie
7.2
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Director
2022 Movie
5.7
Keep the Lights On
Thanks
2012 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Laura Poitras.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Laura Poitras.
Flood
Executive Producer
2025 Movie
5 Seasons of Revolution
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
10.0
How to Have an American Baby
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
7.5
Relative
Producer
2022 Movie
Landfall
Executive Producer
2020 Movie
7.3
Shooting the Mafia
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
Cablestreet
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
5.7
XY Chelsea
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
6.0
The Proposal
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
Scenes from a Dry City
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
The Trial
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
Days of Black and Yellow
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
5.7
Ghosts of Sugar Land
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
4.0
Easter Snap
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
5.0
Libre
Executive Producer
2019 Movie
7.8
In the Absence
Executive Producer
2018 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Laura Poitras.
6.6
Risk
as Self (voice)
2017 Movie
7.0
Meeting Snowden
as Self - Journalist (archive footage)
2017 Movie
7.3
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
2016 Movie
7.7
Citizenfour
as Self
2014 Movie
6.1
Capturing Reality
as Self
2008 Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Laura Poitras.