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  • Doc Memo: 16 Women Dominated Cannes, Tom Hanks Narrates Ken Burns' WWII Doc
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read May 25, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Memo: Vox's Secret to Monetizing Videos, 'The Return' Wins at Tribeca
    POV's daily list of essential reading for the documentary and independent filmmaking community.
    POV Staff 3 min read April 25, 2016 Documentary News Comments
  • After 'The Roosevelts,' What's Next for Ken Burns
    Among Burns future documentaries are Vietnam, which Doc Soup Man Tom Roston says "could be Burns's most significant series since The Civil War."
    Tom Roston 5 min read September 19, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Ken Burns on What We Can Do About That “One Thing We Have to Fear”
    Last night, at the end of the fourth episode of The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, we saw Ken Burns do something pretty special.
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 18, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Ken Burns's 'The Roosevelts': The Truth Outside the Frame
    We're in the thick of The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, Ken Burns's seven-part PBS series, but what I want to address here is what's not on the screen.
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 15, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • Ken Burns on “The Ken Burns Effect” (and the 8 Effects He Actually Uses)
    "I have saved millions of bar mitzvahs and weddings and vacations," say Burns, whose seven-part series, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, begins Sunday on PBS.
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 12, 2014 Doc Soup Comments
  • It's Time to Remove the Stigma That Follows Ken Burns
    I did a deep dive into Burns's work, and I began to realize that a no-holds-barred appreciation of the greatness of his work is due.
    Tom Roston 7 min read September 4, 2014 Doc Soup 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
  • 2012: A Documentary Year in Review
    Twelve stories from 2012 that inspired, thrilled and surprised us. A recap of the year in documentary news.
    POV Staff 13 min read December 18, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Ken Burns on the “Ken Burns Effect”
    Ask anyone what they think of when you mention his name, and they'll refer to the Ken Burns Effect, that technique he employs in all his films whereby the camera pans over sideways and then zooms in.
    Adam Schartoff 1 min read November 14, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • An Overview of the Docs at TIFF
    With the Toronto International Film Festival having kicked off at the end of last week, Tom Roston provides a short list of his must-see docs in the festival this year.
    Tom Roston 3 min read September 10, 2012 Doc Soup Comments
  • Four Independent-Minded Docs for Independence Day
    What’s more patriotic than waving a flag and drinking a Bud? How about baring witness to the struggles of Americans that have made this nation great?
    Tom Roston 3 min read July 3, 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
  • POV & Firelight Media Summit: Sustaining a Career as a Public Media Maker
    Firelight Media's Shoshone Johnson recaps a day of practical advice for documentary film producers, held at POV's office on Friday, February 17, 2012.
    POV Guest Blogger 5 min read February 22, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Docs Takes Round One in the Nonfiction vs Fiction Death Match
    The numbers are in. It may not be a knockout, but nonfiction is our Round One champ!
    Tom Roston 1 min read August 29, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Finding Depth in Documentary Film
    Guest blogger Edward J. Delaney distinguishes between 'art' and 'craft' in documentary film and singles out James March (Man on Wire, Project Nim) as being as close to an artist as anyone working in the form today.
    Edward J. Delaney 7 min read August 24, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Fiction vs. Nonfiction Death Match, Round One
    It's a film showdown: fiction films versus documentaries. POV's Doc Soup Man Tom Roston and indieWIRE's Anne Thompson take their differences into the ring. Which side are you on?
    Tom Roston 15 min read August 23, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • Gift Guide: The Gift of Documentaries
    Looking for a gift for your history-obsessed uncle? Your environmentally-conscious friend? Your urban sophisticate of a brother-in-law? Documentary DVDs could be the way to their heart this holiday season. When it comes to ordering documentaries, the glut of online stores selling DVDs make purchasing and shipping a breeze, but buyers and gifters beware: despite what […]
    Ruiyan Xu 2 min read December 19, 2007 Documentary News Comments