Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film
A podcast by Pure Nonfiction

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227 Episodes
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119: Going Undercover with “The Mole Agent”
Published: 9/2/2020 -
118: Meet Ja’Tovia Gary
Published: 8/26/2020 -
117: The Making of McMillion$
Published: 8/20/2020 -
116: Iyabo Boyd of Brown Girls Doc Mafia
Published: 8/14/2020 -
115: Uncovering China's "One Child Nation"
Published: 2/14/2020 -
114: "For Sama" Inside Syria
Published: 2/7/2020 -
113: Inside "American Factory"
Published: 1/30/2020 -
112: Sundance 2020 Preview
Published: 1/19/2020 -
111: Profiling Toni Morrison
Published: 8/26/2019 -
110: Joshua Wong on Hong Kong
Published: 7/21/2019 -
109: Running with Beto
Published: 5/30/2019 -
108: Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse & Diego Maradona
Published: 5/16/2019 -
107: Rachel Lears on filming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Published: 5/2/2019 -
106: Werner Herzog on “Meeting Gorbachev”
Published: 4/25/2019 -
105: Sam Green & David Harrington on Kronos Quartet
Published: 4/18/2019 -
104: Penny Lane on "Hail Satan?"
Published: 4/11/2019 -
103: Alison Klayman on Steve Bannon in “The Brink”
Published: 4/4/2019 -
102: Baseball on Drugs in “Screwball”
Published: 3/28/2019 -
101: Alex Gibney on how Theranos fooled Silicon Valley
Published: 3/21/2019 -
100: Inside “The Case Against Adnan Syed” on HBO
Published: 3/9/2019
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.