Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film


Latest Episodes

97: “United Skates” with Tina Brown & Reggie Brown
February 14, 2019

Tribeca Audience Prize winner “United Skates” treats you to a dazzling display of roller skating styles in black communities across America. For several generations, roller rinks provided a place for skaters to come together in harmonious movement.

97: "United Skates" with Tina Brown & Reggie Brown
February 14, 2019

Tribeca Audience Prize winner “United Skates” treats you to a dazzling display of roller skating styles in black communities across America.

96: Talal Derki on filming in Syria
February 07, 2019

Syrian director Talal Derki has twice won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Best Documentary Award for “Return to Homs” and “Of Fathers and Sons.” That first film traced the early years of Syria’s civil war.

96: Talal Derki on filming in Syria
February 07, 2019

Syrian director Talal Derki has twice won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Best Documentary Award for “Return to Homs” and “Of Fathers and Sons.”

95: Free Solo, Minding The Gap & Getting Personal
January 31, 2019

“Free Solo,” “Minding the Gap,” “On Her Shoulders” and “The Sentence” are four outstanding documentaries from the past year that test the boundaries of filmmakers to keep a critical distance. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviewed the filmmakers ...

95: Free Solo, Minding The Gap & Getting Personal
January 31, 2019

"Free Solo," "Minding the Gap," "On Her Shoulders" and "The Sentence" are four outstanding documentaries from the past year that test the boundaries of filmmakers to keep a critical distance.

94: Sundance 2019 Preview
January 22, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Steve Bannon, Miles Davis & Toni Morrison are among the prominent documentary subjects at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers got an early look at many of the year’s most anticipated films.

94: Sundance 2019 Preview
January 22, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Steve Bannon, Miles Davis & Toni Morrison are among the prominent documentary subjects at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers got an early look at many of the year's most anticipated films. In this t

93: Astra Taylor on “What is Democracy?”
January 17, 2019

Cornel West, Wendy Brown and Rev William Barber are among the thinkers and activists captured in the new film “What is Democracy?”. Filmmaker Astra Taylor previously made two other documentaries on philosophers “Zizek!” and “Examined Life.

93: Astra Taylor on “What is Democracy?”
January 17, 2019

Cornel West, Wendy Brown and Rev William Barber are among the thinkers and activists captured in the new film “What is Democracy?”.