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  • The Best Documentaries of 2014
    What's the best documentary of 2014? We're tracking festivals, critics, blogs, award shows and more to determine the top docs of the year.
    POV Staff 3 min read December 18, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • Questioning “Best Of” Lists
    Heather McIntosh questions the purpose of "best of" lists, referencing the recently published "The 20 Essential Documentaries of the Century."
    Heather McIntosh 2 min read April 20, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: The 10 Greatest Moments in Documentary Film, Part 2
    Finally — the post that you’ve all been waiting for: my top 5 greatest doc moments. You’ll note that POV’s Ruiyan wins an honorable mention for beating me to the punch in the comments section from last week, with her admiration for Harlan County, USA. What a moment, eh? I agree, and had ranked it […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read April 6, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: The 10 Greatest Moments in Documentary Film, Part 1
    It’s been a while since I’ve done a list (see my 10 most lugubrious docs and the 10 sexiest) — and as an unabashed advocate of the genre, here’s another. What makes for a great moment in a documentary? That can sometimes be a complicated issue, because some of the “greatest” moments are also the […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read March 30, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Outside the Frame: The Ritual of the Year-End List
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame, published every other Wednesday. It’s that time of year again. No, I’m not referring to Christmas, or “the holidays.” Nor am I referring to the winter solstice, New Years or festive binge drinking. […]
    Amanda Hirsch 3 min read December 23, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: The Year in Docs
    It’s end of the year wrap-up time, at a juncture when the world of movies and entertainment and even docs seems a little removed from what’s really on our minds: we appear to be stuck in the muck (but for how long?), though many of us are hopeful that an Obama administration could bring great […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read December 22, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Best Reviewed Docs from Rottentomatoes.com
    Are you as much of a Rotten Tomatoes junkie as I am? I’ve always enjoyed perusing the site’s compilations of critical reactions to a film. It’s about as indispensable to me as imdb.com, the Internet Movie Database, where you can get information about the producers, cast, release dates and more on a film. Well, last […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read March 7, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Top 10 Sexiest Documentaries
    And now for something completely inappropriate… I know many will think ill of me for degrading/simplifying the non-fiction filmmaking genre with the following list. But I can’t help myself. I recently got to wondering: why shouldn’t we have fun with the genre we love so much? Isn’t a new way to look at/debate documentaries a […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read February 15, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Overlooked Docs of 2007
    Ah, the flush feeling of having a documentary that receives high accolades and big box office returns! As I mentioned last week, not many doc filmmakers have felt that way this year, which puts Charles Ferguson among the elite few. I was at a fancy screening and reception this week for his film No End […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read December 21, 2007 Doc Soup Comments
  • IDA's Top 25 Docs List
    The International Documentary Association (IDA) is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, and last week they announced their list of the top 25 documentary films of all time. The list was tabulated from a poll of IDA members, which number over 3,000 and include filmmakers, executives and academics. Hoop Dreams snagged the top spot from […]
    theresa 1 min read October 9, 2007 Documentary News Comments