Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

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214 Episodes

  1. 146: Alex Pritz on “The Territory” at Sundance

    Published: 27/01/2022
  2. 145: Joe Hunting on “We Met in Virtual Reality” at Sundance

    Published: 25/01/2022
  3. 144: Ramin Bahrani on “2nd Chance” at Sundance

    Published: 23/01/2022
  4. 143: Isabel Castro on “Mija” at Sundance

    Published: 21/01/2022
  5. 142: Sara Dosa on “Fire of Love” at Sundance

    Published: 19/01/2022
  6. 141: Richard Rowley on “American Insurrection”

    Published: 06/01/2022
  7. 140: Ry Russo-Young on her “Nuclear Family”

    Published: 09/12/2021
  8. 139: Sonya Childress & Jesse Wente on Making Change

    Published: 02/09/2021
  9. 138: Nanfu Wang on “In the Same Breath”

    Published: 26/08/2021
  10. 137: Sonia Kennebeck on “Enemies of the State”

    Published: 11/08/2021
  11. 136: Fran Lebowitz on “Pretend It’s a City”

    Published: 16/06/2021
  12. 135: In Praise of Lewis Erskine @editorsavant

    Published: 09/06/2021
  13. 134: Astra Taylor on “You Are Not a Loan"

    Published: 20/05/2021
  14. 133: Remembering Leon Gast & “When We Were Kings”

    Published: 18/03/2021
  15. 132: Telling the Story of Fred Hampton

    Published: 04/03/2021
  16. 131: Alex Vitale on Rethinking True Crime

    Published: 26/02/2021
  17. 130: Jean Tsien Goes Outside Her Comfort Zone

    Published: 18/02/2021
  18. 129: Breaking Rules with Victor Kossakovsky, Kirsten Johnson & Garrett Bradley

    Published: 11/02/2021
  19. 128: Bao Nguyen on Bruce Lee in “Be Water”

    Published: 21/01/2021
  20. 127: Remembering Robert Fisk

    Published: 29/12/2020

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If you love documentary films, hear from the top storytellers on Pure Nonfiction. Host Thom Powers is well-connected in this world as a documentary curator for the Toronto International Film Festival, DOC NYC, and SundanceNow Doc Club. He leads conversations that are frank, funny and revealing. Listen to interviews with Oscar-winning filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Alex Gibney, and Roger Ross Williams; as well as the directors of “Making a Murderer,” “Weiner” and “OJ: Made in America.” Often the stories behind the scenes are as dramatic as what’s on the screen. On Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @purenonfiction. Subscribe now.

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