- How Documentarians Have Covered Donald Trump Throughout the Years
A look at the past and present documentaries that have covered Donald Trump.
- Doc Memo: Film Takes Art to New Heights, Chicago International Film Fest At 52
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Subverting North Korean Propaganda Through Documentary
These films show what's really happening within North Korea's closed borders.
- Doc Memo: Film on Legendary NYC Arcade, 7 Docs That Made Change
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: Policing the Police, TIFF Plunges into Virtual Reality
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: FRONTLINE doc on NRA, Secrets to Successful Doc Pitching
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: Master Class with Werner Herzog, $25 Million Pledge to Indie Media
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: Documentary Inside Two Major Conflict Zones, Joshua Oppenheimer on Climate Change
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- Doc Memo: Insights from Modern Storytelling, VR Experience in Chernobyl
POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
- CMSI Asks: Is Public TV Different?
A CMSI audit of documentary series on commercial and public TV has found that the most diverse documentary series on TV are Independent Lens and POV, public TV series.
- Introducing the U.K. to Americana on a Commercial Scale
With the global distribution of U.S. television shows, does Britain need to see more programming from “across the pond,” as the saying goes? PBS America thinks so.
- Where You Can Watch 2013 News and Documentary Emmy Winners
At last night's News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony, PBS programs garnered nine awards. The good news for you — all of these winners are available to watch for free online!
- Toward a Cultural Institution Dedicated to Documentary
Heather McIntosh provides a survey of organizations whose relationship to the documentary form, or dedication to the form have helped shape and promote the genre.
- Documenting AIDS
Doc Soup Man Tom Roston reviews the state of documentaries about an epidemic that hasn't gone away.
- ITVS Announces 50-Film Documentary Campaign About Women and Leadership
Our friends at ITVS have announced “Women and Girls Lead,” a major public media initiative that’s set to showcase more than 50 documentaries about women, girls and leadership over the next three years and bring conversation around the issues of equal access, freedom, and opportunity into communities in the United States and around the world. […]
- Outside the Frame: Q&A with PBS Interactive's Angela Morgenstern
Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, blogs about documentaries and the Web in her weekly column, Outside the Frame. Angela Morgenstern is the senior director of PBS Interactive, where she oversees teams focused on digital content, social media and online video programming. Previously, she earned industry acclaim — and a number […]
- 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 […]
- Weekly Roundup: March 28, 2008
Cinematical reviews the Iraq War documentary Body of War, directed by former talk show host Phil Donahue and filmmaker Ellen Spiro. Read an interview with the filmmakers, along with Tomas Young, the Iraq War veteran who is the subject of the film, at Democracy Now! The New York Times reviewed Benson Lee‘s Planet B-Boy, a […]