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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PN 40: “True South” – Jon Else on Henry Hampton & “Eyes on the Prize”
“Eyes on the Prize” is a landmark documentary series chronicling the history of the civil rights movement. Debuting on public television in 1987,...
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