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  • How Documentarians Have Covered Donald Trump Throughout the Years
    A look at the past and present documentaries that have covered Donald Trump.
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 19, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 3 min read October 12, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Subverting North Korean Propaganda Through Documentary
    These films show what's really happening within North Korea's closed borders.
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 21, 2016 Doc Soup Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 4 min read August 18, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: Policing the Police, TIFF Plunges into Virtual Reality
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read June 29, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 3 min read June 15, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 2 min read May 19, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 2 min read May 4, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: Insights from Modern Storytelling, VR Experience in Chernobyl
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read April 27, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    POV Staff 1 min read October 22, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • 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.
    Heather McIntosh 3 min read January 17, 2014 Documentary News Comments
  • 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!
    POV Staff 4 min read October 2, 2013 Documentary News Comments
  • 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.
    Heather McIntosh 6 min read January 31, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Documenting AIDS
    Doc Soup Man Tom Roston reviews the state of documentaries about an epidemic that hasn't gone away.
    Tom Roston 2 min read January 9, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • 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. […]
    POV Staff 2 min read May 9, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • 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 […]
    Amanda Hirsch 7 min read April 8, 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
  • 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 […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read March 28, 2008 Documentary News Comments

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