Articles – Features
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Behind the Scenes of Wild Pacific Rescue
Andrew Munger and Michael Sheehan recall the development and production of their nature series Wild Pacific Rescue.
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From Picket Lines to Poverty: Labour Union Troubles in Canada
Reflections on three NFB doc classics about the workplace and Canadian labour.
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Farm Crime Is Truly Canadian True Crime
From black market butchers to baby eel burglaries, Farm Crime puts a fresh spin on a popular genre.
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No Ordinary Man: Billy Tipton’s Complex Identity
Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s No Ordinary Man is a groundbreaking portrait of transgender musician Billy Tipton.
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Barbara Hammer: Putting Her Body on Cinema’s Frontlines
A retrospective of the late, great Barbara Hammer, who forged new terrain for representing the experiences—and bodies—of lesbian women on screen.
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To Be a Black Body in a White Space
The complexities of portraying Black lives onscreen.
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Violeta Ayala on the Power of Documentary-Inspired Virtual Reality
Violeta Ayala discusses her virtual reality work Prison X ahead of its Sundance premiere.
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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.
