Kirsten Johnson Movies

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...

James Forman, a 31-year-old public defender and son of a civil rights leader, provides representation for black youth in Washington, D.C., who can't...

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...

Few can resist Venice's magical allure, but with more than 14 million visitors a year, Italy's glorious city of canals faces a number of threats....

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...

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

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

A "fictional documentary" concerning the volatile topic of female excision, Bintou In Paris tells the story of a young Malinese mother faced with the...

It’s a medical breakthrough that might never have happened - if not for the persistence of one man. A woman is fighting cancer - with the help...

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,...

Work in progress.

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having...

In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth...

Documentary about the life and career of Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, an African country, who is one of the few women in her country,...

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...

The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists...

Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator...

Documentary looking at the work of the attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death, a moving and enlightening story of how tragedy...