Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

Hear the world's top storytellers talk all things documentary film. Host Thom Powers is as well-connected as it gets in this world as a documentary curator for TIFF and other renowned festivals. He wrote the book “Mondo Documentary” that is “required read

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89: Opal H. Bennett on Short Documentaries

Posted November 8, 2018 • 00:34:04

Short documentaries are thriving on platforms like Netflix, HBO and New York Times Op-Docs. This year, the DOC NYC festival picked 12 short docs for...

88: DOC NYC Preview 2018

Posted November 1, 2018 • 01:01:42

Wim Wenders, Rashida Jones, and Michael Moore are among the hundreds of documentary filmmakers coming to New York City for the DOC NYC festival from...

87: Sandi Tan on “Shirkers”

Posted October 25, 2018 • 00:30:01

Winner of the 2018 Sundance Directing Award for World Documentary, Sandi Tan makes her debut with “Shirkers,” now on Netflix. She grew up in Singapore....

86: Alex Gibney & Trevor Birney, Wanted in Belfast

Posted October 18, 2018 • 00:37:04

Alex Gibney’s “No Stone Unturned” uses leaked police documents to investigate an unsolved mass murder in Northern Ireland. Now the police are...

85: Maxim Pozdorovkin on Trump, Putin & Pussy Riot

Posted August 2, 2018 • 00:47:42

During the 2016 US election, Russia Today offered a steady stream of English-language reports that disseminated to American audiences via YouTube and...