trailer break: ‘The Oath’

Yesterday, I wrote about how filmmaker Laura Poitras has been targeted by the federal government because of her work investigating and critiquing the U.S.’s prosecution of the “war on terror.” This is her latest film. It’s easy to see why it might make the feds uncomfortable, but they doesn’t give them the right to copy her journalistic notes. In fact, this appears to be precisely the kind of overreach that caused the freedom of the press to be encoded into the Constitution.

The Oath is now playing at the IFC Center in New York City and at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in Los Angeles.