Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film
If you love documentary films, hear from the top storytellers on Pure Nonfiction. Host Thom Powers is well-connected in this world as a documentary curator for the Toronto International Film Festival, DOC NYC, and SundanceNow Doc Club. He leads conversations that are frank, funny and revealing. Listen to interviews with Oscar-winning filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Alex Gibney, and Roger Ross Williams; as well as the directors of “Making a Murderer,” “Weiner” and “OJ: Made in America.” Often the stories behind the scenes are as dramatic as what’s on the screen. On Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @purenonfiction. Subscribe now.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 230
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
PN 09: Pennebaker & Hegedus on Clinton, Bowie & Animal Rights
DA Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus have been collaborating for 40 years. In this interview with Thom Powers, they talk about films throughout their career including “Town Bloody Hall” about a 1970s debate…
00:35:03 |
Thu 02 Jun 2016
PN 08: Who is Princess Shaw?
"Presenting Princess Shaw" is one of the year's most crowd-pleasing documentaries at festivals from TIFF to True/False to SXSW. Now it's releasing in theaters and on VOD. Director Ido Haar follows Sa…
00:22:05 |
Thu 26 May 2016
PN 07: Weiner Beyond the Headlines
“Weiner” directors Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg take us behind the scenes of filming their documentary about Anthony Weiner. The film follows the politician as he copes with a sexting scandal duri…
00:26:52 |
Thu 19 May 2016
PN 06: Jonathan Demme’s Real Life Characters
Jonathan Demme has directed a steady stream of documentaries in between his prominent output of fiction films. In this conversation with Thom Powers, Demme talks about "Swimming to Cambodia,” the bre…
01:04:00 |
Thu 12 May 2016
PN 05: Who is Anderson Cooper’s Mother?
Liz Garbus, the two-time Oscar nominated director of "The Farm: Angola, USA" and “What Happened, Miss Simone?,” has a new HBO documentary “Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper” …
00:37:48 |
Thu 05 May 2016
PN 04: Going Deep With Mapplethorpe
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, directors of HBO’s “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” discuss their career from when they first met in the 1980s. Yes, this episode contains explicit language as w…
00:44:40 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
PN 03: "Making a Murderer” - Behind the Scenes
“Making a Murderer” directors Laura Riccardi and Moira Demos discuss the ten-year process of creating their acclaimed Netflix series. This conversation with Thom Powers took place with a live audienc…
00:48:41 |
Thu 21 Apr 2016
PN 02: Inside the Supreme Court Case on Abortion
Dawn Porter, director of “Trapped” and “Gideon’s Army,” discusses how she switched careers from being a lawyer to a documentary maker; and how she chose her topics. Her first film “Gideon’s Army” loo…
00:29:25 |
Wed 20 Apr 2016
PN 01: From Maysles To The New Yorker Presents…
Kahane Cooperman, the showrunner of "The New Yorker Presents,” discusses her eclectic jobs from working at Maysles Films to becoming co-executive producer of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to dire…
00:27:50 |
Tue 19 Apr 2016
PN 00 - Introducing Pure Nonfiction!
Documentary film makers span all kinds of storytellers: provocateurs, visionaries, investigators and more. Pure Nonfiction brings you candid interviews with leading documentary makers. Hear this prev…
00:03:34 |
Wed 13 Apr 2016
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