No documentary in history has ever scored a best picture nomination at the Oscars. Not “Hoop Dreams.” Not “The War Room.” Not “Harlan County, U.S.A.” All the classics of the genre failed to make the ...

Director Laura Poitras' Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe you're watching. Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such ...

Backstage producer Mathilde Bonnefoy said “We focused on the person Snowden. We tried with our film to show him, to give him a voice. His motives were pure. He’s a young man who decided to end his ...

Laura Poitras' new film isn't artfully shaped like her other documentaries. But she captures scenes as history is being made — and it will make you look both ways when you're on the street. This is ...

In a year with few front-runners, Laura Poitras‘s “Citizenfour” seems destined to win a slew of critics awards. The Edward Snowden documentary has been a media darling since its New York Film Fest ...

Laura Poitras is calling from her cell phone, which means that there’s a chance the NSA is collecting data about our call, or perhaps even listening in on our conversation. Of course, it was her ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 <p><i>Citizenfour</i> is a simplistic tale of Snowden and white hats and black hats, where subtlety and context play little roles and the existence of smoke ...

Watch a clip from the documentary "Citizenfour," featuring Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Jacob Appelbaum. Photo/Video: Radius-TWC The great documentaries of the last 20 years have had several ...

As her Bafta-winning documentary opens in Australia, the director reflects on the past 18 months and the possibility of further stories about Australia’s role in global surveillance The first glimpse ...

“I am not the story,” says Edward Snowden to documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald in “CITIZENFOUR,” but like Snowden himself, there’s nothing simple about that statement.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. This in essence is the message of “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ highly anticipated documentary on Edward Snowden’s decision to expose the National Security Agency’s ravenous ...