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What are the ethical standards of a filmmaker portraying subcultures to which they do not belong? How does it shift if they are a member? How does the...

Following up from Toronto International Film Festival, we discuss the new Michael Moore film, Fahrenheit 11/9 and interview Thom Powers, the Documenta...

In this bonus episode we take a look at the content The Guardian has been producing and chat with Charlie Phillips about being the Head of Documentari...

We sat down with director Steve James at AFI DOCS 2018 to discuss his body of work as a whole, his most recent series, AMERICA TO ME, and working in v...

Looking back at history under a contemporary lens can be a powerful tool to provide context and take action in difficult political times.This week we ...

This week we cover documentary films that at first appear to be about a bunch of wildly different ideas but then manage to tie it all together under a...

This episode is all about sports and athleticism documentaries. We review COMING TO MY SENSES which tells the story of Aaron Baker who was paralyzed i...

Depicting masters of their craft through documentary is the theme this week. In FILMWORKER, Leon Vitali spent his life working with Stanley Kubrick to...

In this episode, we look at WON?T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR through the lens of radical kindness and the context of social activism documentaries and Chris i...

This week we met up in person at AFI DOCS in Washington DC to interview the directors of some of our favorite films from the festival, which we discus...

AFI DOCS Films Discussed: Charm City / 2018 (Director: Marilyn Ness) The Cold Blue / 2018 (Director: Erik Nelson) For the Birds / 2018 (Director: Rich...

Bart gives us a brief history of interactive and transmedia documentary and we take a look at Life Underground, an immersive online documentary explor...