Articles – Features
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The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima: Sifting Through the Rubble
The ghost towns of a nuclear disaster are hauntingly familiar after nearly a year of virus-induced lockdown in Otto Bell’s The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima.
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True or False
Have documentaries become propaganda in the age of Donald Trump and Fake News?
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The Best Documentaries of 2020
POV’s editor and publisher pick the best documentaries of 2020.
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The Authenticity of Steve McQueen’s Mangrove
70s documentary backs up a new docu-drama, Mangrove, the first part of Steve McQueen’s new mini-series.
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Acting Naturally
Nomadland leads new wave of hybrid dramas that afford agency to subjects by inviting them to re-enact the drama of their lives.
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Becoming More Inconvenient
Reflections on Michelle Latimer and Thomas King’s Inconvenient Indian.
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Elvis Classic ‘That’s the Way It Is’ Still a Doc Among Kings
Revisiting the concert doc Elvis: That’s the Way It Is upon its 50th anniversary release.
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Ann Shin’s Eye of the Beholder Finds Empathy with the ‘Other’
Ann Shin discusses her VR experience Eye of the Beholder, which tasks users with making split-second decisions seen in My Enemy, My Brother.
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10 to Watch for World AIDS Day: Screening the Pandemic
Stories from the AIDS pandemic can teach us lots amid the COVID-19 crisis of 2020.
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Based on a True Story
As documentaries become bigger hits, mainstream feature fiction films increasingly channel docs, often in unexpected ways.
