DOCUMENTARY MOVIES' EFFORT OF SEARCHING-INVESTIGATING OF TRUTH: LAURA POITRAS' 11ST OF SEPTEMBER TRILOGY MY COUNTRY MY COUNTRY, THE OATH AND CITIZENFOUR
BELGESEL FİLMLERİN GERÇEĞİ ARAŞTIRMA-SORUŞTURMA ÇABASI: LAURA POITRAS’IN 11 EYLÜL ÜÇLEMESİ; MY COUNTRY MY COUNTRY, THE OATH ve CITIZENFOUR

Author : Nilgün BENLİ
Number of pages : 132-154

Abstract

Documentary movie, arisen from capturing reality on a film strip, then started to assume a different duty in recent years. Docmentary movie makers, searched situations that contrary to public interest in order to make the world a better much more liveable place and they pursued dangerous adventures bravely in a way that will face against powerfull segments of the society. Laura Poitras, one of the documentary directors of today, speaks of the violations of American government over other nations’ citizens in the first two parts of 11st of September Trilogy which are My Country My Country and The Oath. Citizenfour, the last part of the trilogy, is about systematic violations of rights imposed on own citizens. In this study Laura Poitras’ 11st of September Trilogy was examined. It is claimed that Poitras is an important representative of documentaries who shed light on the future by telling the past.

Keywords

Documentary movie, Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, Michael Moore, Citizenfour, My Country My Country,

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