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Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film — 244 episodes
243: Sasha Waters on Mary Oliver
241: Live from New York, part 2
240: Live from New York, part 1
239: Poh Si Teng on "American Doctor"
238: Colin Hanks & Ryan Reynolds on John Candy
237: Judd Apatow & Michael Bonfiglio on Mel Brooks
236: Raney Aronson-Rath on Frontline
235: Oscar Shortlist Spotlight
234: Ryan White & Megan Falley on "Come See Me in the Good Light"
233: Alexandria Stapleton on "Sean Combs: The Reckoning"
232: Apocalypse in the Tropics
231: Docs from Five Countries
230: Storks, Orphans, Rebels & Predators
229: Poetry, Murder, Prison & UFOs
228: Contessa Gayles on "Songs From the Hole"
227: Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady on "Folktales"
226: Martha Stewart, Alice Waters, John Williams
225: Will & Harper, Social Studies, Chimp Crazy
224: Emmy contenders
223: Questlove, Reginald Hudlin, David Tedeschi
222: Sam Soko on telling African stories
221: Sinead O'Shea on Edna O'Brien
220: Jeremy Workman on "Secret Mall Apartment"
219: Frederick Wiseman at 95
218: Shortlisters, part 2
217: Shortlisters, part 1
216: "Queendom" with Agniia Galdanova & Igor Myakotin
215: Ibrahim Nash'at on "Hollywoodgate"
214: Adam Kinzinger & Steve Pink on "The Last Republican"
213: Alex Gibney & Alexis Bloom on "The Bibi Files"
212: William Kentridge on "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot"
211: Live from London
210: Brian Eno & Ibelin
209: Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole, George Orwell & Haiti
208: Johan Grimonprez on "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat"
207: Frida, Celine and Daughters
206: Docs with Laughs
205: Live from Los Angeles
204: Shiori Ito on "Black Box Diaries"
203: Elevating documentary craft in "Nocturnes"
202: On filming "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story"
201: Angela Patton & Natalie Rae Robison on "Daughters"
200: Beadie Finzi & Judy Kibinge on DISCO & the Independence Project
199: "No Other Land" directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham
198: Lucy Walker on "Mountain Queen”
197: Sonya Childress & Sahar Driver on Color Congress
196: Jeff Zimbalist on "Skywalkers: A Love Story"
195: Rethinking Louis C.K. in "Sorry / Not Sorry"
194: "Copa 71" Restores a Lost History
193: ESPN 30 for 30
192: Emmy Contenders, Part 2
191: Emmy Contenders, Part 1
190: Chris Wilcha — from "This American Life" to "Flipside"
189: India's Trail-Blazing Director Anand Patwardhan
188: Margreth Olin on "Songs of Earth"
187: Rob Reiner on Albert Brooks and Spinal Tap
186: Yousef Srouji on Palestinian Home Movies
185: Paul Cronin on Columbia 1968
184: Clair Titley on "The Contestant"
183: Just Vision’s Julia Bacha and Suhad Babaa on 20 Years of Covering Israel-Palestine
182: Sreemoyee Singh — from India to Iran
181: Mila Turajlić on Non-Aligned
180: Asmae El Moudir on "The Mother of All Lies"
179: Alex Gibney on Paul Simon
178: Anand Giridharadas on "The Persuaders"
177: Carla Gutierrez on "Frida"
176: Alissa Wilkinson at The New York Times
175: S. Leo Chiang on "Island in Between"
174: Oscar contenders, part 2
173: Oscar contenders, part 1
172: Nicole Newnham on “The Disappearance of Shere Hite”
171: "Every Body" Profiles Intersex Activists
170: Raoul Peck on "Silver Dollar Road"
169: Mstyslav Chernov on “20 Days in Mariupol"
168: Vinay Shukla on "While We Watched"
167: Sébastien Lifshitz on "Casa Susanna"
166: Maite Alberdi on "The Eternal Memory"
165: D. Smith on "Kokomo City"
164: Asif Kapadia on Highs and Lows
163: John Leguizamo Does America
162: Roger Ross Williams on Donna Summer, "The 1619 Project" and "Cassandro"
161: Elvis Mitchell on "Is That Black Enough for You?!?"
160: Inside "Couples Therapy"
159: Lisa Cortés on "Little Richard: I Am Everything"
158: Harry Belafonte on "Sing Your Song"
157: E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin on "Wild Life"
156: Chase Joynt Explores Transgender History in "Framing Agnes"
155: Daniel Roher on "Navalny"
154: Oscar-nominated Shaunak Sen on "All That Breathes"
153: Joyce Chopra on "Lady Director"
152: Violet Du Feng on "Hidden Letters"
151: Rebeca Huntt on "Beba"
150: “La Madrina” of the South Bronx
149: W. Kamau Bell on "We Need to Talk About Cosby"
148: Abigail Disney & Kathleen Hughes on Disney’s Dark Side
147: Stanley Nelson on "Attica" and a Retrospective
146: Alex Pritz on “The Territory” at Sundance
145: Joe Hunting on “We Met in Virtual Reality” at Sundance
144: Ramin Bahrani on “2nd Chance” at Sundance
143: Isabel Castro on “Mija” at Sundance
142: Sara Dosa on “Fire of Love” at Sundance
141: Richard Rowley on “American Insurrection”
140: Ry Russo-Young on her “Nuclear Family”
139: Sonya Childress & Jesse Wente on Making Change
138: Nanfu Wang on “In the Same Breath”
137: Sonia Kennebeck on “Enemies of the State”
136: Fran Lebowitz on “Pretend It’s a City”
135: In Praise of Lewis Erskine @editorsavant
134: Astra Taylor on “You Are Not a Loan"
133: Remembering Leon Gast & “When We Were Kings”
132: Telling the Story of Fred Hampton
131: Alex Vitale on Rethinking True Crime
130: Jean Tsien Goes Outside Her Comfort Zone
129: Breaking Rules with Victor Kossakovsky, Kirsten Johnson & Garrett Bradley
128: Bao Nguyen on Bruce Lee in “Be Water”
127: Remembering Robert Fisk
126: Loira Limbal on “Through the Night”
125: Garrett Bradley on “Time”
124: Jeff Orlowski on “The Social Dilemma”
123: Yoruba Richen on Breonna Taylor & Harry Belafonte
122: Free hajooj kuka
121: Mark Cousins’ Cinematic Road Trips
120: Cameron Bailey on #TIFF20 and Planet Africa
119: Going Undercover with “The Mole Agent”
118: Meet Ja’Tovia Gary
117: The Making of McMillion$
116: Iyabo Boyd of Brown Girls Doc Mafia
115: Uncovering China's "One Child Nation"
114: "For Sama" Inside Syria
113: Inside "American Factory"
112: Sundance 2020 Preview
111: Profiling Toni Morrison
110: Joshua Wong on Hong Kong
109: Running with Beto
108: Asif Kapadia on Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse & Diego Maradona
107: Rachel Lears on filming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
106: Werner Herzog on “Meeting Gorbachev”
105: Sam Green & David Harrington on Kronos Quartet
104: Penny Lane on "Hail Satan?"
103: Alison Klayman on Steve Bannon in “The Brink”
102: Baseball on Drugs in “Screwball”
101: Alex Gibney on how Theranos fooled Silicon Valley
100: Inside “The Case Against Adnan Syed” on HBO
99: D.A. Pennebaker, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney & more on Stephen Sondheim’s “Company"
98: Tim Wardle, Sandi Tan & RaMell Ross on "Pushing Boundaries"
97: "United Skates" with Tina Brown & Reggie Brown
96: Talal Derki on filming in Syria
95: Free Solo, Minding The Gap & Getting Personal
94: Sundance 2019 Preview
93: Astra Taylor on “What is Democracy?”
92: Aretha Franklin in “Amazing Grace,” Lost and Found
91: Mr. Rogers, Quincy Jones, Jane Fonda & Pope Francis Walk Into a Bar
90: Michael Moore, Julie Cohen, Annie Sundberg & Stephen Maing on “Getting Political”
89: Opal H. Bennett on Short Documentaries
88: DOC NYC Preview 2018
87: Sandi Tan on “Shirkers"
86: Alex Gibney & Trevor Birney, Wanted in Belfast
85: Maxim Pozdorovkin on Trump, Putin & Pussy Riot
84: Matt Tyrnauer on “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”
83: Jason Kohn on "Love Means Zero"
82: Kevin MacDonald on Whitney Houston
81: Tim Wardle on “Three Identical Strangers”
80: Jonathan Safran Foer & Christopher Quinn on “Eating Animals”
79: Judd Apatow on Garry Shandling
78: Liz Garbus on The New York Times in "The Fourth Estate"
77: Wim Wenders on Pope Francis
76: Filming Ruth Bader Ginsburg
75: Dawn Porter on “Bobby Kennedy for President”
74: Joe Berlinger from "Brother's Keeper" to "Intent to Destroy"
73: Sophie Fiennes on Grace Jones
72: Jed Rothstein on “The China Hustle”
71: Amanda Micheli on “Vegas Baby” & IVF Treatment
70: Mark Duplass, Chapman & Maclain Way on “Wild Wild Country”
PN 69: Remembering Chris Hondros
PN 68: Policing in “Flint Town”
PN 67: “Control Room” Revisited with Josh Rushing
PN 66: Attorney Gloria Allred on “Seeing Allred”
PN 65: Sam Pollard on Sammy Davis Jr, Spike Lee & St. Clair Bourne
PN 64: First Person Documentary with Yance Ford, Bryan Fogel & Jeff Orlowski
PN 63: Tabitha Jackson + 2018 Sundance Preview
PN 62: Errol Morris, Brett Morgen & Ceyda Torun on Documentary Style
PN 61: Jennifer Brea on “Unrest”
PN 60: Alex Gibney & Blair Foster on "Rolling Stone”
PN 59: Yance Ford on "Strong Island"
PN 58: Brett Morgen on Jane Goodall
PN 57: DOC NYC Preview
PN 56: Agnès Varda & JR on “Faces Places”
PN 55: Frederick Wiseman - From "Titicut Follies" to "Ex Libris”
PN 54: TIFF 2017 Documentary Preview Part 2 of 2
PN 53: TIFF 2017 Documentary Preview Part 1 of 2
PN 52: Playwright Dominique Morisseau on “Detroit '67," “Pipeline," “Shameless" & more
PN 51: Errol Morris & Elsa Dorfman on “The B-Side”
PN 50: D.A. Pennebaker on "Monterey Pop" at 50
PN 49: Steve James From "Hoop Dreams" to "Abacus"
PN 48: HBO’s Sheila Nevins on Seductions, Heartbreaks & Her New Book
PN 47: Jonathan Demme & Renée Shafransky on Spalding Gray
PN 46: Rashida Jones, Jill Bauer & Ronna Gradus on "Hot Girls Wanted"
PN 45: Matt Tyrnauer on "Citizen Jane"
PN 44: From Indiana Jones to Guatemala’s Civil War - Frank Marshall & Ryan Suffern
PN 43: Laurent Bouzereau & Mark Harris on “Five Came Back"
PN 42: Made in Miami - Billy Corben & Alfred Spellman on “Cocaine Cowboys”
PN 41: Danae Elon on “P.S. Jerusalem”
PN 40: “True South” - Jon Else on Henry Hampton & "Eyes on the Prize"
PN 39: Marina Zenovich on Roman Polanski & California’s water crisis
PN 38: Clay Tweel on “Gleason"
PN 37: Oscar Nominees for Documentary Feature
PN 36: John Heilemann on “Trumped"
PN 35: Syrian Filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia In Exile
PN 34: Island President Mohamed Nasheed in Exile
PN 33: Inside Sundance with Josh Braun
PN 32: Laura Poitras & Henrik Moltke on Project X
PN 31: Race, History, Trump & Documentary
PN 30: Madam President: Sheila Nevins on HBO Documentary Films
PN 29: Werner Herzog on “Into the Inferno”
PN 28: Gianfranco Rosi on “Fire at Sea”
PN 27: Morgan Spurlock & Jeremy Chilnick on “Rats”
PN 26: Ava DuVernay on 13th
PN 25: Directing "Amanda Knox”
PN 24: Kirsten Johnson on “Cameraperson”
PN 23: Demme on Talking Heads, Neil Young & Justin Timberlake
PN 22: Nanette Burstein Investigates John McAfee
PN 21: Raoul Peck on James Baldwin
PN 20: Women Directors at #TIFF16
PN 19: New Docs on True Crime
PN 18: Jazz Legends on Screen
Season Two Preview
PN 17: Barbara Kopple - From Harlan County to Sharon Jones
PN 16: Alex Gibney on Revealing Secrets
PN 15: Muhammad Ali on Film
PN 14: TV’s King of Comedy
PN 13: “Life, Animated” director Roger Ross Williams
PN 12: Talking “Tickled" with David Farrier & Dylan Reeve
PN 11: Yo-Yo Ma & Morgan Neville on "The Music of Strangers"
PN 10: Why Revisit O.J. Simpson?
PN 09: Pennebaker & Hegedus on Clinton, Bowie & Animal Rights
PN 08: Who is Princess Shaw?
PN 07: Weiner Beyond the Headlines
PN 06: Jonathan Demme’s Real Life Characters
PN 05: Who is Anderson Cooper’s Mother?
PN 04: Going Deep With Mapplethorpe
PN 03: "Making a Murderer” - Behind the Scenes
PN 02: Inside the Supreme Court Case on Abortion
PN 01: From Maysles To The New Yorker Presents…
PN 00 - Introducing Pure Nonfiction!