Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film
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Episodes: 191
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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.
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183: Just Vision’s Julia Bacha and Suhad Babaa on 20 Years of Covering Israel-Palestine
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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182: Sreemoyee Singh — from India to Iran
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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181: Mila Turajlić on Non-Aligned
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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180: Asmae El Moudir on "The Mother of All Lies"
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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179: Alex Gibney on Paul Simon
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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178: Anand Giridharadas on "The Persuaders"
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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177: Carla Gutierrez on "Frida"
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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176: Alissa Wilkinson at The New York Times
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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175: S. Leo Chiang on "Island in Between"
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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174: Oscar contenders, part 2
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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173: Oscar contenders, part 1
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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172: Nicole Newnham on “The Disappearance of Shere Hite”
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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171: "Every Body" Profiles Intersex Activists
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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170: Raoul Peck on "Silver Dollar Road"
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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169: Mstyslav Chernov on “20 Days in Mariupol"
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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168: Vinay Shukla on "While We Watched"
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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167: Sébastien Lifshitz on "Casa Susanna"
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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166: Maite Alberdi on "The Eternal Memory"
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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165: D. Smith on "Kokomo City"
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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164: Asif Kapadia on Highs and Lows
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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163: John Leguizamo Does America
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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162: Roger Ross Williams on Donna Summer, "The 1619 Project" and "Cassandro"
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May 30, 2023 |
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161: Elvis Mitchell on "Is That Black Enough for You?!?"
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May 18, 2023 |
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160: Inside "Couples Therapy"
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May 11, 2023 |
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159: Lisa Cortés on "Little Richard: I Am Everything"
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May 04, 2023 |
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158: Harry Belafonte on "Sing Your Song"
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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157: E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin on "Wild Life"
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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156: Chase Joynt Explores Transgender History in "Framing Agnes"
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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155: Daniel Roher on "Navalny"
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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154: Oscar-nominated Shaunak Sen on "All That Breathes"
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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153: Joyce Chopra on "Lady Director"
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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152: Violet Du Feng on "Hidden Letters"
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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151: Rebeca Huntt on "Beba"
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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150: “La Madrina” of the South Bronx
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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149: W. Kamau Bell on "We Need to Talk About Cosby"
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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148: Abigail Disney & Kathleen Hughes on Disney’s Dark Side
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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147: Stanley Nelson on "Attica" and a Retrospective
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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146: Alex Pritz on “The Territory” at Sundance
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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145: Joe Hunting on “We Met in Virtual Reality” at Sundance
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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144: Ramin Bahrani on “2nd Chance” at Sundance
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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143: Isabel Castro on “Mija” at Sundance
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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142: Sara Dosa on “Fire of Love” at Sundance
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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141: Richard Rowley on “American Insurrection”
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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140: Ry Russo-Young on her “Nuclear Family”
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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139: Sonya Childress & Jesse Wente on Making Change
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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138: Nanfu Wang on “In the Same Breath”
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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137: Sonia Kennebeck on “Enemies of the State”
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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136: Fran Lebowitz on “Pretend It’s a City”
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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135: In Praise of Lewis Erskine @editorsavant
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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134: Astra Taylor on “You Are Not a Loan"
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May 20, 2021 |
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133: Remembering Leon Gast & “When We Were Kings”
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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132: Telling the Story of Fred Hampton
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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131: Alex Vitale on Rethinking True Crime
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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130: Jean Tsien Goes Outside Her Comfort Zone
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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129: Breaking Rules with Victor Kossakovsky, Kirsten Johnson & Garrett Bradley
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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128: Bao Nguyen on Bruce Lee in “Be Water”
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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127: Remembering Robert Fisk
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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126: Loira Limbal on “Through the Night”
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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125: Garrett Bradley on “Time”
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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124: Jeff Orlowski on “The Social Dilemma”
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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123: Yoruba Richen on Breonna Taylor & Harry Belafonte
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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122: Free hajooj kuka
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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121: Mark Cousins’ Cinematic Road Trips
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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120: Cameron Bailey on #TIFF20 and Planet Africa
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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119: Going Undercover with “The Mole Agent”
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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118: Meet Ja’Tovia Gary
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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117: The Making of McMillion$
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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116: Iyabo Boyd of Brown Girls Doc Mafia
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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115: Uncovering China's "One Child Nation"
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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114: "For Sama" Inside Syria
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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113: Inside "American Factory"
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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112: Sundance 2020 Preview
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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111: Profiling Toni Morrison
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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110: Joshua Wong on Hong Kong
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Jul 21, 2019 |
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109: Running with Beto
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May 30, 2019 |
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108: Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse & Diego Maradona
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May 16, 2019 |
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107: Rachel Lears on filming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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May 02, 2019 |
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106: Werner Herzog on “Meeting Gorbachev”
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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105: Sam Green & David Harrington on Kronos Quartet
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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104: Penny Lane on "Hail Satan?"
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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103: Alison Klayman on Steve Bannon in “The Brink”
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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102: Baseball on Drugs in “Screwball”
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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101: Alex Gibney on how Theranos fooled Silicon Valley
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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100: Inside “The Case Against Adnan Syed” on HBO
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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99: D.A. Pennebaker, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney & more on Stephen Sondheim’s “Company"
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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98: Tim Wardle, Sandi Tan & RaMell Ross on "Pushing Boundaries"
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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97: "United Skates" with Tina Brown & Reggie Brown
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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96: Talal Derki on filming in Syria
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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95: Free Solo, Minding The Gap & Getting Personal
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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94: Sundance 2019 Preview
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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93: Astra Taylor on “What is Democracy?”
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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92: Aretha Franklin in “Amazing Grace,” Lost and Found
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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91: Mr. Rogers, Quincy Jones, Jane Fonda & Pope Francis Walk Into a Bar
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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90: Michael Moore, Julie Cohen, Annie Sundberg & Stephen Maing on “Getting Political”
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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89: Opal H. Bennett on Short Documentaries
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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88: DOC NYC Preview 2018
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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87: Sandi Tan on “Shirkers"
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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86: Alex Gibney & Trevor Birney, Wanted in Belfast
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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85: Maxim Pozdorovkin on Trump, Putin & Pussy Riot
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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84: Matt Tyrnauer on “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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83: Jason Kohn on "Love Means Zero"
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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82: Kevin MacDonald on Whitney Houston
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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81: Tim Wardle on “Three Identical Strangers”
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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80: Jonathan Safran Foer & Christopher Quinn on “Eating Animals”
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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79: Judd Apatow on Garry Shandling
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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78: Liz Garbus on The New York Times in "The Fourth Estate"
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May 31, 2018 |
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77: Wim Wenders on Pope Francis
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May 24, 2018 |
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76: Filming Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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May 10, 2018 |
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75: Dawn Porter on “Bobby Kennedy for President”
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May 03, 2018 |
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74: Joe Berlinger from "Brother's Keeper" to "Intent to Destroy"
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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73: Sophie Fiennes on Grace Jones
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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72: Jed Rothstein on “The China Hustle”
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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71: Amanda Micheli on “Vegas Baby” & IVF Treatment
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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70: Mark Duplass, Chapman & Maclain Way on “Wild Wild Country”
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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PN 69: Remembering Chris Hondros
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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PN 68: Policing in “Flint Town”
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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PN 67: “Control Room” Revisited with Josh Rushing
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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PN 66: Attorney Gloria Allred on “Seeing Allred”
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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PN 65: Sam Pollard on Sammy Davis Jr, Spike Lee & St. Clair Bourne
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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PN 64: First Person Documentary with Yance Ford, Bryan Fogel & Jeff Orlowski
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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PN 63: Tabitha Jackson + 2018 Sundance Preview
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Pure Nonfiction at IFC Center Winter Season
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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PN 62: Errol Morris, Brett Morgen & Ceyda Torun on Documentary Style
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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PN 61: Jennifer Brea on “Unrest”
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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PN 60: Alex Gibney & Blair Foster on "Rolling Stone”
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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90th Academy Awards
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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PN 59: Yance Ford on "Strong Island"
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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PN 58: Brett Morgen on Jane Goodall
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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PN 57: DOC NYC Preview
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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PN 56: Agnès Varda & JR on “Faces Places”
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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PN 55: Frederick Wiseman - From "Titicut Follies" to "Ex Libris”
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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PN 54: TIFF 2017 Documentary Preview Part 2 of 2
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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PN 53: TIFF 2017 Documentary Preview Part 1 of 2
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Aug 30, 2017 |
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Documentary All-Stars! in Detroit - October 7
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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PN 52: Playwright Dominique Morisseau on “Detroit '67," “Pipeline," “Shameless" & more
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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PN 51: Errol Morris & Elsa Dorfman on “The B-Side”
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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PN 50: D.A. Pennebaker on "Monterey Pop" at 50
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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PN 49: Steve James From "Hoop Dreams" to "Abacus"
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May 18, 2017 |
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PN 48: HBO’s Sheila Nevins on Seductions, Heartbreaks & Her New Book
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May 11, 2017 |
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PN 47: Jonathan Demme & Renée Shafransky on Spalding Gray
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May 04, 2017 |
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PN 46: Rashida Jones, Jill Bauer & Ronna Gradus on "Hot Girls Wanted"
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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PN 45: Matt Tyrnauer on "Citizen Jane"
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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PN 44: From Indiana Jones to Guatemala’s Civil War - Frank Marshall & Ryan Suffern
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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PN 43: Laurent Bouzereau & Mark Harris on “Five Came Back"
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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PN 42: Made in Miami - Billy Corben & Alfred Spellman on “Cocaine Cowboys”
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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PN 41: Danae Elon on “P.S. Jerusalem”
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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PN 40: “True South” - Jon Else on Henry Hampton & "Eyes on the Prize"
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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PN 39: Marina Zenovich on Roman Polanski & California’s water crisis
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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PN 38: Clay Tweel on “Gleason"
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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PN 37: Oscar Nominees for Documentary Feature
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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PN 36: John Heilemann on “Trumped"
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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PN 35: Syrian Filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia In Exile
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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PN 34: Island President Mohamed Nasheed in Exile
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Montclair Film Festival Panels
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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DOC NYC: November 11 – 19, 2020
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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PN 33: Inside Sundance with Josh Braun
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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PN 32: Laura Poitras & Henrik Moltke on Project X
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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PN 31: Race, History, Trump & Documentary
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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PN 30: Madam President: Sheila Nevins on HBO Documentary Films
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Nov 09, 2016 |
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PN 29: Werner Herzog on “Into the Inferno”
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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PN 28: Gianfranco Rosi on “Fire at Sea”
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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PN 27: Morgan Spurlock & Jeremy Chilnick on “Rats”
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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PN 26: Ava DuVernay on 13th
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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PN 25: Directing "Amanda Knox”
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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PN 24: Kirsten Johnson on “Cameraperson”
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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PN 23: Demme on Talking Heads, Neil Young & Justin Timberlake
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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PN 22: Nanette Burstein Investigates John McAfee
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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PN 21: Raoul Peck on James Baldwin
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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PN 20: Women Directors at #TIFF16
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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PN 19: New Docs on True Crime
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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PN 18: Jazz Legends on Screen
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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Season Two Preview
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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PN 17: Barbara Kopple - From Harlan County to Sharon Jones
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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PN 16: Alex Gibney on Revealing Secrets
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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PN 15: Muhammad Ali on Film
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Jul 14, 2016 |
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PN 14: TV’s King of Comedy
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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PN 13: “Life, Animated” director Roger Ross Williams
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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PN 12: Talking “Tickled" with David Farrier & Dylan Reeve
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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PN 11: Yo-Yo Ma & Morgan Neville on "The Music of Strangers"
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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PN 10: Why Revisit O.J. Simpson?
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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PN 09: Pennebaker & Hegedus on Clinton, Bowie & Animal Rights
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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PN 08: Who is Princess Shaw?
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May 26, 2016 |
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PN 07: Weiner Beyond the Headlines
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May 19, 2016 |
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PN 06: Jonathan Demme’s Real Life Characters
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May 12, 2016 |
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PN 05: Who is Anderson Cooper’s Mother?
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May 05, 2016 |
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PN 04: Going Deep With Mapplethorpe
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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PN 03: "Making a Murderer” - Behind the Scenes
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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PN 02: Inside the Supreme Court Case on Abortion
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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PN 01: From Maysles To The New Yorker Presents…
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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PN 00 - Introducing Pure Nonfiction!
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Apr 13, 2016 |
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Toronto International Film Festival: September 7 – 17
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Jan 11, 2016 |