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Davis Guggenheim
  • Doc Memo: 10th Anniversary of 'An Inconvenient Truth', Banned Doc Wins Big
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 13, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • What Are Your Top Weather Documentaries?
    With Hurricane Sandy keeping people in the Northeast shuttered in, Tom Roston contemplates his top list of weather-related documentaries.
    Tom Roston 3 min read October 29, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Brown Bears Are Good at Making Documentaries (But Are They The Best?)
    Proud Brown University alumnus Doc Soup Man Tom Roston thinks his alma mater has outdone all others in producing great documentary filmmakers.
    Tom Roston 3 min read May 25, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Seven Mothers from Seven Mother's Day Documentaries
    In time for Mother's Day, Tom Roston presents a list of documentaries that celebrate motherhood in all its forms.
    Tom Roston 4 min read May 12, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Obama Enters the 2012 Election with 'The Road We've Traveled,' a Documentary by Davis Guggenheim
    Election-year ads are often naïve and clumsy, dogmatic and jingoistic. David Guggenheim’s 17-minute The Road We've Traveled, created for President Obama's re-election campaign, is quite a different animal.
    Tom Roston 3 min read March 20, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Video Slideshow: Presidential Documentaries Released in Election Years
    View video from some of the most influential and controversial documentaries released in the midst of U.S. presidential campaigns.
    Kapish Singla 11 min read March 16, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: A Documentary Dispatch from the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston recaps the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and previews films you can hope to see in theaters in the coming months.
    Tom Roston 4 min read September 19, 2011 Doc Soup Comments