POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.

Why award-winning documentarian Laura Poitras' first solo museum exhibition at the Whitney Museum can't be missed.

The documentary community breathed a deep sigh of relief last night when Laura Poitras won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, but her speech was a missed opportunity.

Tom Roston considers this year's Best Documentary Oscar contenders with his tried-and-true method for predicting which film will win.

What are the challenges of working in both the documentary and journalism spaces? Find out at the International Documentary Association’s upcoming Doc U panel discussion.

Doc Soup Man reflects on his Oscar nomination predictions -- after finding out he got only 60 percent right -- and checks in with two nominated filmmakers.

Doc Soup Man is not one to shy away from predictions. His thoughts on which documentaries will be nominated for the Oscars in 2015.

If there is ever a question whether or not there's an actual community of documentary filmmakers, the first bit of evidence should be the Cinema Eye Honors.

Without any throat clearing about how this was yet another great year for docs -- which it was, by the way -- I present my favorite nonfiction films of 2014

He's already been robbed of one. After decades of making documentaries, Steve James has earned the right to be recognized with an Oscar.

Doc Soup Man picks his top four documentaries for this year's festival.