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  • The Detroit Graduates: Watch the Documentary & Go Behind the Story with The New York Times
    Kassie Bracken discusses The Detroit Graduates, a six part documentary following five high school seniors graduating from Denby High School in Detroit in 2013, the year the city declared bankruptcy.
    Emma Dessau 13 min read September 11, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • We the Economy
    This new online documentary series is striving to explain the economy through 20 short films.
    Heather McIntosh 2 min read October 30, 2014 Documentary Site Comments
  • “Poverty Porn” and a Proposal That Could End It Once And For All
    There’s potential for exploitation whenever a documentary is made. Doc Soup Man Tom Roston proposes a new way to support the communities depicted by the filmmaker-without-a-cause.
    Tom Roston 6 min read May 5, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • How Much Money Does It Really Take to Make a Documentary?
    In the wake of America's credit rating downgrade and a day after a 600-plus-point drop in the Dow, Edward J. Delaney of DocumentaryTech looks at how the documentary-film economy is changing rapidly.
    Edward J. Delaney 6 min read August 9, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: “Collapse” – Are We Doomed?
    We’re doomed! I’m not even talking about that mess up in Massachusetts. I’m talking big-time, end-of-civilization, DOOMED. That, at least, is the message delivered by Collapse, a documentary that came out last year, directed by Chris Smith (The Yes Men, American Movie). The film got limited attention, and can now be see on movies-on-demand on […]
    Tom Roston 8 min read January 25, 2010 Doc Soup Comments
  • Outside the Frame: First-Person Recession Part 2
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame. Read Part 1 of this series on how Americans are documenting their recession experiences online. This week, I set out to see how professional news websites are integrating user-generated content into their recession […]
    Amanda Hirsch 3 min read August 5, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Outside the Frame: First-Person Recession
    Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her column, Outside the Frame. Back in the Great Depression, newspapermen (and I do mean men) were the only ones documenting the economic crisis and its effects — unless you count the private diaries of private citizens. Today, […]
    Amanda Hirsch 4 min read July 22, 2009 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Analyzing the Economic Meltdown
    Last October, I railed about how there was a dearth of doc filmmakers tackling the current economic meltdown, pointing out that the usually on-the-ball PBS Frontline series wasn’t stepping into the void. Well, they finally answered the call a couple of weeks ago. And boy, did they present a grim picture. I found Frontline’s “Inside […]
    Tom Roston 2 min read March 2, 2009 Doc Soup Comments