Episodes
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March 1, 2018
PN 68: Policing in “Flint Town”
Netflix’s new 8-part series “Flint Town” follows the city’s police department as they cope with a depressed economy, high crime and a water crisis over the course of 2016.
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Feb. 22, 2018
PN 67: “Control Room” Revisited with Josh Rushing
Fifteen years ago as America prepared to make war on Iraq, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim embedded herself at the U.S. military’s CENTCOM media headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
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Feb. 15, 2018
PN 66: Attorney Gloria Allred on “Seeing Allred”
The lawsuit "Summer Zervos v. Donald Trump" is among the high profile cases handled by attorney Gloria Allred.
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Feb. 8, 2018
PN 65: Sam Pollard on Sammy Davis Jr, Spike Lee & St. Clair Bourne
You can watch an extended version of this interview at TIFF Originals on YouTube. Read more about the St. Clair Bourne retrospective at New York’s Metrograph cinema (Feb 16-19) Hear Jon Else discuss Henry Hampton’s work on “Eyes on the Prize” on episode 40. Ava DuVernay talked about the influence of Pollard’s film “Slavery by Another Name” on episode 26. “Sammy Davis Jr: I Gotta Be Me” had its world premiere at TIFF. It’s currently playing film festivals and will come to PBS American Masters ...
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Feb. 1, 2018
PN 64: First Person Documentary with Yance Ford, Bryan Fogel & Jeff Orlowski
Directors Yance Ford ("Strong Island”), Bryan Fogel (“Icarus”) and Jeff Orlowski ("Chasing Coral”) each put themselves on camera in different ways.
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Jan. 16, 2018
PN 63: Tabitha Jackson + 2018 Sundance Preview
The Sundance Film Festival is always a great place for documentary discoveries.
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Jan. 11, 2018
PN 62: Errol Morris, Brett Morgen & Ceyda Torun on Documentary Style
From “Wormwood” to “Jane” to “Kedi,” documentary directors are making bold stylistic choices.
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Dec. 21, 2017
PN 61: Jennifer Brea on “Unrest”
The Oscar Documentary Feature Short List of 15 films includes the underdog entry “Unrest” by first time director Jennifer Brea.
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Dec. 15, 2017
PN 60: Alex Gibney & Blair Foster on "Rolling Stone”
John Lennon, Tina Turner, Hunter Thomspon and Annie Leibovitz are among the many figures covered in the new 2-part HBO documentary “Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge.”