Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

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205 Episodes

  1. 117: The Making of McMillion$

    Published: 8/20/2020
  2. 116: Iyabo Boyd of Brown Girls Doc Mafia

    Published: 8/14/2020
  3. 115: Uncovering China's "One Child Nation"

    Published: 2/14/2020
  4. 114: "For Sama" Inside Syria

    Published: 2/7/2020
  5. 113: Inside "American Factory"

    Published: 1/30/2020
  6. 112: Sundance 2020 Preview

    Published: 1/19/2020
  7. 111: Profiling Toni Morrison

    Published: 8/26/2019
  8. 110: Joshua Wong on Hong Kong

    Published: 7/21/2019
  9. 109: Running with Beto

    Published: 5/30/2019
  10. 108: Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse & Diego Maradona

    Published: 5/16/2019
  11. 107: Rachel Lears on filming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Published: 5/2/2019
  12. 106: Werner Herzog on “Meeting Gorbachev”

    Published: 4/25/2019
  13. 105: Sam Green & David Harrington on Kronos Quartet

    Published: 4/18/2019
  14. 104: Penny Lane on "Hail Satan?"

    Published: 4/11/2019
  15. 103: Alison Klayman on Steve Bannon in “The Brink”

    Published: 4/4/2019
  16. 102: Baseball on Drugs in “Screwball”

    Published: 3/28/2019
  17. 101: Alex Gibney on how Theranos fooled Silicon Valley

    Published: 3/21/2019
  18. 100: Inside “The Case Against Adnan Syed” on HBO

    Published: 3/9/2019
  19. 99: D.A. Pennebaker, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney & more on Stephen Sondheim’s “Company"

    Published: 2/28/2019
  20. 98: Tim Wardle, Sandi Tan & RaMell Ross on "Pushing Boundaries"

    Published: 2/21/2019

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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.