Episodes

Director Alison Klayman (“Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry”) spent a year on the road with Steve Bannon as he met with European right wing leaders to spread his nationalist ideology.

Hear their previous interview on episode 42 discussing “Cocaine Cowboys.” On Twitter: @billycorben @alfredspellman @thompowers @PureNonfiction

HBO's documentary "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley" looks at the case of Elizabeth Holmes who created the company Theranos promising to revolutionize the field of blood-testing.

Serial, the podcast, won millions of listeners to the story of the 1999 Baltimore murder of Hae Min Lee that sent her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed to prison.

D.A. Pennebaker’s1970 documentary “Original Cast Album: Company” captures the dramatic recording session of the Stephen Sondheim musical.

This is the fourth and final installment of conversations from the DOC NYC Short List. Previous episodes were: 90: Getting Political 91: Portrait Documentaries 95: Getting Personal On Twitter: @ttwardle @sanditan @ramellross @thompowers @purenonfiction

Tribeca Audience Prize winner “United Skates” treats you to a dazzling display of roller skating styles in black communities across America.

Syrian director Talal Derki has twice won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Best Documentary Award for “Return to Homs” and “Of Fathers and Sons.”

"Free Solo," "Minding the Gap," "On Her Shoulders" and "The Sentence" are four outstanding documentaries from the past year that test the boundaries of filmmakers to keep a critical distance.

Films discussed (in chronological order): Knock Down the House The Brink Where’s My Roy Cohn? American Factory Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Ask Dr. Ruth Mike Wallace Is Here Untouchable The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley Sea of Shadows Tigerland Maiden Apollo 11 and Vanity Fair on Apollo 11 The Biggest Little Farm Untitled Amazing Jonathan Documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld This is Personal Hail Satan? Thanks to the hard-working publicists who met our...

Cornel West, Wendy Brown and Rev William Barber are among the thinkers and activists captured in the new film “What is Democracy?”.

In 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded her biggest selling album “Amazing Grace” as a live gospel performance over two nights at a Los Angeles church, under the direction of Reverend James Cleveland.

Related Pure Nonfiction episodes: 11: Morgan Neville 46: Rashida Jones77: Wim Wenders90: DOC NYC Short List filmmakers on “Getting Political” On Twitter: @ThePopeMovie @QuincyDJones @MrRogersMovie @TremoloDocs @HBODocs @thompowers @PureNonfiction

ilmmakers Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 11/9), Julie Cohen (RBG), Annie Sundberg (Reversing Roe) and Stephen Maing (Crime + Punishment) sat down with Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers for a panel called “Getting Political” at the DOC NYC PRO conference on November 9, 2018.

On Twitter: @oh_benn @docnycfest @thompowers @purenonfiction

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 November 8 to 15.

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

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

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

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

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.

Whitney Houston had an angelic voice, but fought demons in her personal life.

Separated at birth, the triplets Bobby, Eddy and David discovered each other by accident at age 19 in 1980.

Relax, “Eating Animals” isn’t proselytizing for vegetarianism.