Movies: Kirsten Johnson

  • 2004
    Fahrenheit 9/11

    Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

    Fahrenheit 9/11

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    Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq....

    Fahrenheit 9/11
  • 2014
    Citizenfour

    Citizenfour (2014)

    Citizenfour

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    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her....

    Citizenfour
  • 2008
    Lioness

    Lioness (2008)

    Lioness

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    The untold story of the first women in U.S. history to be sent into direct ground combat....

    Lioness
  • 2006
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated

    This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

    This Film Is Not Yet Rated

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    Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certa...

    This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  • 2017
    Atomic Homefront

    Atomic Homefront (2017)

    Atomic Homefront

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    Revealing St. Louis, Missouri's atomic past as a uranium processing center for the atomic bomb and the governmental and corporate negligence that lead to the illegal dumping of Manhattan Project radioactive waste throughout North County neighborhoods...

    Atomic Homefront
  • 2017
    Risk

    Risk (2017)

    Risk

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    Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth ...

    Risk
  • 2003
    A Decade Under the Influence

    A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

    A Decade Under the Influence

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    A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time....

    A Decade Under the Influence
  • 2012
    The Invisible War

    The Invisible War (2012)

    The Invisible War

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    An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences....

    The Invisible War
  • 2016
    Audrie & Daisy

    Audrie & Daisy (2016)

    Audrie & Daisy

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    A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims...

    Audrie & Daisy
  • 2016
    Cameraperson

    Cameraperson (2016)

    Cameraperson

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    As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation...

    Cameraperson
  • 2020
    Dick Johnson Is Dead

    Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

    Dick Johnson Is Dead

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    With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and b...

    Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • 2011
    Yelling To The Sky

    Yelling To The Sky (2011)

    Yelling To The Sky

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    As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain....

    Yelling To The Sky
  • 2023
    The Arc of Oblivion

    The Arc of Oblivion (2023)

    The Arc of Oblivion

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    "The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far a...

    The Arc of Oblivion
  • 2016
    Betting on Zero

    Betting on Zero (2016)

    Betting on Zero

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    Controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is on a crusade to expose global nutritional giant Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history while Herbalife execs claim Ackman is a market manipulator out to bankrupt them and make a killing off hi...

    Betting on Zero
  • 2008
    Pray the Devil Back to Hell

    Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)

    Pray the Devil Back to Hell

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    Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country....

    Pray the Devil Back to Hell
  • 2012
    A Place at the Table

    A Place at the Table (2012)

    A Place at the Table

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    Using personal stories, this powerful documentary illuminates the plight of the 49 million Americans struggling with food insecurity. A single mother, a small-town policeman and a farmer are among those for whom putting food on the table is a daily b...

    A Place at the Table
  • 2018
    Crime + Punishment

    Crime + Punishment (2018)

    Crime + Punishment

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    Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on ...

    Crime + Punishment
  • 2019
    Museum Town

    Museum Town (2019)

    Museum Town

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    A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA....

    Museum Town
  • 2024
    Sabbath Queen

    Sabbath Queen (2024)

    Sabbath Queen

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    Sabbath Queen is a remarkable 20 year journey in the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 39th generation Orthodox rabbi — and drag queen....

    Sabbath Queen
  • 2024
    A Photographic Memory

    A Photographic Memory (2024)

    A Photographic Memory

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    A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they leave behind....

    A Photographic Memory