Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film
A podcast by Pure Nonfiction
236 Episodes
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228: Contessa Gayles on "Songs From the Hole"
Published: 8/28/2025 -
227: Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady on "Folktales"
Published: 7/24/2025 -
226: Martha Stewart, Alice Waters, John Williams
Published: 6/13/2025 -
225: Will & Harper, Social Studies, Chimp Crazy
Published: 6/12/2025 -
224: Emmy contenders
Published: 5/30/2025 -
223: Questlove, Reginald Hudlin, David Tedeschi
Published: 5/29/2025 -
222: Sam Soko on telling African stories
Published: 5/8/2025 -
221: Sinead O'Shea on Edna O'Brien
Published: 4/17/2025 -
220: Jeremy Workman on "Secret Mall Apartment"
Published: 3/27/2025 -
219: Frederick Wiseman at 95
Published: 2/14/2025 -
218: Shortlisters, part 2
Published: 1/9/2025 -
217: Shortlisters, part 1
Published: 1/8/2025 -
216: "Queendom" with Agniia Galdanova & Igor Myakotin
Published: 1/7/2025 -
215: Ibrahim Nash'at on "Hollywoodgate"
Published: 1/6/2025 -
214: Adam Kinzinger & Steve Pink on "The Last Republican"
Published: 1/2/2025 -
213: Alex Gibney & Alexis Bloom on "The Bibi Files"
Published: 12/31/2024 -
212: William Kentridge on "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot"
Published: 12/10/2024 -
211: Live from London
Published: 12/5/2024 -
210: Brian Eno & Ibelin
Published: 12/4/2024 -
209: Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole, George Orwell & Haiti
Published: 11/27/2024
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.