 Close
Follow

Blog Columns

  • Documentary News
  • POV Films Blog
  • Doc Soup
  • Press Room
  • Documentary Site
  • Story Doctor

Recent Posts

  • Featured Event: 'QUEST' film screening with Company One and ZUMIX
  • PRESS RELEASE: Hasidic Women Upend Tradition by Forming An All-Female EMT Corps in ‘93QUEEN,’ Airing September 17, 2018 on POV
  • PRESS RELEASE: Voices of the Sea | Contradictions of Love and Freedom in Cuban Love Story
  • Critical Acclaim for 'Whose Streets?'
  • Featured Event: 'Whose Streets?' Screening and Discussion at St. Louis' Public Media Commons
POV's Documentary Blog



documentary history
  • Doc Soup: Remastered Vietnam War Doc “Hearts and Minds” Back in Theaters
    What’s this?!?! A documentary film being remastered and restored and re-released to theaters like it were a regular….classic film? Okay, so maybe this is not the first time, but it seems that Hearts and Minds, the 1974 Academy Award-winning doc about the Vietnam War, certainly got the royal treatment for its re-release to theaters on […]
    Tom Roston 4 min read March 23, 2009 Doc Soup Comments
  • Stranger than Fiction's Tribute to William Greaves
    POV series producer Yance Ford checks in from a special event honoring William Greaves in New York City. There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work. For me, attending the Stranger than Fiction (STF) tribute to filmmaker William Greaves this past Tuesday was, indeed, a thrill. Stranger than Fiction, the documentary […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read February 20, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Watch Groundbreaking 1993 Doc Silverlake Life Online
    Fifteen years ago, POV broadcast the documentary Silverlake Life: The View From Here by Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman. And from now until February 22, 2009, a streaming version of this groundbreaking film will be available for free on the POV website. Silverlake Life is one of several full-length films being streamed by POV. Mark […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read December 29, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Organic 'Milk'
    I love it when fictional feature filmmakers are heavily inspired by documentaries — especially such prominent ones as Gus Van Sant. His film Milk, starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the gay activist-turned politician who was killed in 1978, is a fantastic bit of fictional filmmaking with a heavy dose of nonfiction influences. First, there […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read December 8, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • Doc Soup: Telling the Truth in Film and in Print
    One of my favorite bands in the 1980s, Depeche Mode, used to sing: “get the balance right.” I might be the first person to quote David Gahan in defense of the mission of the nonfiction writer (what a way to hack at my own credibility), but that’s the state I’m in. I have always tried […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read March 21, 2008 Doc Soup Comments
  • POV Alum Adele Horne on Essay Films — or “Films That Try”
    Adele Horne is the filmmaker behind The Tailenders (POV 2006), which examines missionary activity, the loss of languages around the world and global capitalism in an unusual and essayistic way. Adele, winner of the “Truer Than Fiction” Award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards, writes in with her thoughts on the history of essay films. […]
    Catherine Jhee 3 min read February 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments
  • Media Guide: The Masters of Documentary on 'Charlie Rose'
    When the Charlie Rose Show started putting the entirety of its archives on YouTube (3,860 videos and counting), it allowed us to revisit old interviews, and get insightful peeks into the brains of some of the most intelligent, powerful and creative people in American today. Among those are some of America’s greatest documentarians. Charlie Rose […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read December 3, 2007 Documentary News Comments
  • Best Documentary Oscar: The Shortlist, and a Long History
    Fifteen films have been shortlisted for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, and not everyone’s happy about the list. Notable omissions include In the Shadow of the Moon, a rapturously reviewed film that saw NASA astronauts remembering their missions to space during the 1960s and 1970s, and The Devil Came on Horseback, the devastating and affecting […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read November 20, 2007 Documentary News 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