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 16: Alex Gibney on Revealing Secrets

Posted July 21, 2016 • 00:47:38

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PN 15: Muhammad Ali on Film

Posted July 14, 2016 • 00:44:31

Bill Siegel, director of “The Trials of Muhammad Ali,” spent over two decades nurturing the idea to make his film about Ali’s religious beliefs...

PN 14: TV’s King of Comedy

Posted July 7, 2016 • 00:40:20

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PN 13: “Life, Animated” director Roger Ross Williams

Posted June 30, 2016 • 00:45:54

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PN 12: Talking “Tickled” with David Farrier & Dylan Reeve

Posted June 23, 2016 • 00:28:32

Fetish or sport? That’s what New Zealand TV journalist David Farrier wondered when he came across online videos of athletic young men in sports uniforms...