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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84: Matt Tyrnauer on “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”

Posted July 26, 2018 • 00:44:53

Gore Vidal played a key role behind the scenes in helping Scotty Bowers tell his secret history of Hollywood. Starting in the 1940s, Scotty operated...

83: Jason Kohn on “Love Means Zero”

Posted July 19, 2018 • 00:53:27

Andre Agassi, Boris Becker, Jim Courier and Kathleen Horvath are only a few of the champions who came out of Nick Bollettieri’s tennis academy. Bollettieri...

82: Kevin MacDonald on Whitney Houston

Posted July 12, 2018 • 00:34:23

Whitney Houston had an angelic voice, but fought demons in her personal life. The new documentary “Whitney” explores her talents and tribulations....

81: Tim Wardle on “Three Identical Strangers”

Posted July 5, 2018 • 00:31:37

Separated at birth, the triplets Bobby, Eddy and David discovered each other by accident at age 19 in 1980. They became media sensations. Madonna cast...

80: Jonathan Safran Foer & Christopher Quinn on “Eating Animals”

Posted June 28, 2018 • 00:41:58

Relax, “Eating Animals” isn’t proselytizing for vegetarianism. But author Jonathan Safran Foer and filmmaker Christopher Quinn are asking you...