Movies: Kirsten Johnson

  • 2012
    The Program

    The Program (2012)

    The Program

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    Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data....

    The Program
  • 2002
    American Standoff

    American Standoff (2002)

    American Standoff

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    The Teamster's Union goes on strike against Overnite Transportation, a nationwide freight company that has resisted unionization. The Union, however, faces its own internecine battles as factions inside the organization, one led by James P. Hoffa (so...

    American Standoff
  • 2008
    Throw Down Your Heart

    Throw Down Your Heart (2008)

    Throw Down Your Heart

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    A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins....

    Throw Down Your Heart
  • 2013
    ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage

    ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage (2013)

    ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage

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    Documentary - The documentary directed by Joshua Seftel follows the revival production of the Broadway musical including casting, rehearsals, and opening night. - Andy Blankenbuehler, Lilla Crawford, Madi Rae DiPietro...

    ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
  • 2001
    Perpetua 664

    Perpetua 664 (2001)

    Perpetua 664

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    Six years after I left my country, Brazil, I was sent an old sound reel in the post and I discovered a recording of my parent's wedding ceremony. I was twenty-six. It was the first time I'd ever heard my mother's voice as she died when I was a year o...

    Perpetua 664
  • 1994
    Il faut que je l'aime

    Il faut que je l'aime (1994)

    Il faut que je l'aime

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    A young woman named Juliette reminisces a series of recent confrontations. We hear, off-screen, the voices of her loved ones, her mother, her former lover, who burst in just as she was making the decisions that affected her life....

    Il faut que je l'aime
  • 2001
    Trembling Before G-d

    Trembling Before G-d (2001)

    Trembling Before G-d

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    A portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation....

    Trembling Before G-d
  • 2007
    Election Day

    Election Day (2007)

    Election Day

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    Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, ELECTION DAY combines eleven stories--all shot simultaneously on November...

    Election Day
  • 2016
    A Thousand Mothers

    A Thousand Mothers (2016)

    A Thousand Mothers

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    Set at an ancient nunnery above the majestic Irrawaddy River, A THOUSAND MOTHERS is an unprecedented look at the lives of Buddhist nuns in Sagaing, Myanmar....

    A Thousand Mothers
  • 2012
    Virgin Tales

    Virgin Tales (2012)

    Virgin Tales

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    Evangelical Christians are calling out for a second sexual revolution: chastity. As a counter-movement of the attitudes and practices of today's culture, one in six girls in the US has vowed to remain 'unsoiled' until marriage. But the seven children...

    Virgin Tales
  • 2001
    Brother Born Again

    Brother Born Again (2001)

    Brother Born Again

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    Filmmaker Julia Pimsleur used to make up elaborate lies about her brother Marc, rather than explain that he had dropped out of college, turned his back on his Jewish heritage and moved to a Christian commune in Alaska. She and her mother initially fe...

    Brother Born Again
  • 2004
    Ladies First

    Ladies First (2004)

    Ladies First

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    In the new Rwanda, women are at the forefront of change; transforming the country from the ground up and planning for a peaceful future....

    Ladies First
  • 2003
    Asylum

    Asylum (2003)

    Asylum

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    Baba, a young Ghanaian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing on her impending marriage. This turns to a nightmare as he insists she a different man, and that she undergo female genital mutilation as is the custom in his tribe. She is f...

    Asylum
  • 2010
    The Edge of Joy

    The Edge of Joy (2010)

    The Edge of Joy

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    The Edge of Joy follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the world's highest maternal mortality rate....

    The Edge of Joy
  • 2001
    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle

    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle (2001)

    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle

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    Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti....

    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle
  • 2018
    A Thousand Thoughts

    A Thousand Thoughts (2018)

    A Thousand Thoughts

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    Filmmaker Sam Green, in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini, takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to create a "live documentary" that chronologically unfolds the quartet's groundbreaking, continent-spannin...

    A Thousand Thoughts
  • 2018
    Brooklyn Inshallah

    Brooklyn Inshallah (2018)

    Brooklyn Inshallah

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    Khader El-Yateem, an Arab American Pastor from Palestine, and Linda Sarsour, organizer of the Women's March on Washington, come together in the wake of President Trump's anti-Muslim policies. With Sarsour's support, El-Yateem runs for New York City c...

    Brooklyn Inshallah
  • 2003
    Starring Osama Bin Laden

    Starring Osama Bin Laden (2003)

    Starring Osama Bin Laden

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    Starring Osama Bin Laden
  • 2008
    Oscar's Comeback

    Oscar's Comeback (2008)

    Oscar's Comeback

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    Through a unique, “mom-and-pop” style film festival, a small town in south Dakota celebrates its most famous native son, Oscar Micheaux, a pioneering African American filmmaker of the early 1900’s....

    Oscar's Comeback
  • 1995
    Bintou in Paris

    Bintou in Paris (1995)

    Bintou in Paris

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    A "fictional documentary" concerning the volatile topic of female excision, Bintou In Paris tells the story of a young Malinese mother faced with the critical decision of whether or not to excise her baby daughter....

    Bintou in Paris