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Roger & Me
  • Documentaries at the Video Store
    The significant relationship between video stores and documentaries.
    Tom Roston 4 min read October 8, 2015 Doc Soup Comments
  • Where Are the First-Person Women Documentarians?
    With Tiffany Shlain's personal documentary Connected wrapping up its theatrical run, Doc Soup Man Tom Roston asks why the best known first-person documentarians are men.
    Tom Roston 3 min read December 15, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • The United States of Documentaries (Map)
    A state-by-state breakdown of the best, most representative and most unique documentaries from the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
    POV Staff 3 min read November 22, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: The 10 Greatest Moments in Documentary Film, Part 1
    It’s been a while since I’ve done a list (see my 10 most lugubrious docs and the 10 sexiest) — and as an unabashed advocate of the genre, here’s another. What makes for a great moment in a documentary? That can sometimes be a complicated issue, because some of the “greatest” moments are also the […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read March 30, 2009 Doc Soup Comments