Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

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228 Episodes

  1. 220: Jeremy Workman on "Secret Mall Apartment"

    Published: 3/27/2025
  2. 219: Frederick Wiseman at 95

    Published: 2/14/2025
  3. 218: Shortlisters, part 2

    Published: 1/9/2025
  4. 217: Shortlisters, part 1

    Published: 1/8/2025
  5. 216: "Queendom" with Agniia Galdanova & Igor Myakotin

    Published: 1/7/2025
  6. 215: Ibrahim Nash'at on "Hollywoodgate"

    Published: 1/6/2025
  7. 214: Adam Kinzinger & Steve Pink on "The Last Republican"

    Published: 1/2/2025
  8. 213: Alex Gibney & Alexis Bloom on "The Bibi Files"

    Published: 12/31/2024
  9. 212: William Kentridge on "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot"

    Published: 12/10/2024
  10. 211: Live from London

    Published: 12/5/2024
  11. 210: Brian Eno & Ibelin

    Published: 12/4/2024
  12. 209: Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole, George Orwell & Haiti

    Published: 11/27/2024
  13. 208: Johan Grimonprez on "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat"

    Published: 11/21/2024
  14. 207: Frida, Celine and Daughters

    Published: 11/14/2024
  15. 206: Docs with Laughs

    Published: 11/8/2024
  16. 205: Live from Los Angeles

    Published: 10/31/2024
  17. 204: Shiori Ito on "Black Box Diaries"

    Published: 10/24/2024
  18. 203: Elevating documentary craft in "Nocturnes"

    Published: 10/17/2024
  19. 202: On filming "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story"

    Published: 10/10/2024
  20. 201: Angela Patton & Natalie Rae Robison on "Daughters"

    Published: 10/3/2024

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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.