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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World Review – Observing a World of Poetry

Reviews

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of World is a documentary portrait imbued with the ethos of the poetry of the woman whose words inspired it.
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India Needs Another Yugantar

Essays/Features

Revisiting four films by the Yugantar Film Collective as their representations of women's rights and labour struggles resonate in today's climate.
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Celebrity Docs Dominate Emmy Nominations

News

Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man! leads the documentary field at the Emmys with six nominations.
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World Review – Observing a World of Poetry

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of World is a documentary portrait imbued with the ethos of the poetry of the woman whose words inspired it.
India Needs Another Yugantar

Revisiting four films by the Yugantar Film Collective as their representations of women's rights and labour struggles resonate in today's climate.
Celebrity Docs Dominate Emmy Nominations

Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man! leads the documentary field at the Emmys with six nominations.
Based on a Documentary: Explore the Canon of Non-Fiction Remakes

Watch dramas and the documentaries that inspired them including Music of the Heart, Grey Gardens, Freeheld, and Loving.
What Is Jeff Wall Making?

Two recent exhibitions by photographer Jeff Wall invite further reflection about the role of documentary and capturing life within a single frame.

Reviews

Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions Review – Cream of the Crop

Rough Trade rocker Carole Pope considers her groundbreaking career as she continues hustling from gig to gig in Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions.

A bald man with a shaggy grey leans in to kiss a cow on the snout.

Better Go Mad in the Wild Review: Udder Lunacy

by Jason Gorber

Better Go Mad in the Wild is an artfully offbeat documentary that asks if it's better to go mad in private than never to have fallen off the edge at all.

Everybody to Kenmure Street Review: Community Action Across Many Narrative Threads

by Barbara Goslawski

Everybody to Kenmure Street observes as residents of the most diverse neighbourhood in Glasgow, Scotland join forces to protest and prevent a wrongful arrest.

Meryl Streep is pictured in close-up. She is playing the violin and has an intense facial expression. She is wearing a black dress and is photographed against a black background. She is a white woman with curly auburn hair. — *Music of the Heart* | Crave-Maddalena Films/Miramax/Alamy

Based on a Documentary: Explore the Canon of Non-Fiction Remakes

by Pat Mullen

Published on July 6, 2026

Features

Watch dramas and the documentaries that inspired them including Music of the Heart, Grey Gardens, Freeheld, and Loving.

Jeff Wall, Actor in two roles, 2020. Two inkjet prints, Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023, installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2025. Photo: LF Documentation. © Jeff Wall. — Jeff Wall, *Actor in two roles*, 2020. Two inkjet prints, *Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023*, installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2025. | LF Documentation. © Jeff Wall

What Is Jeff Wall Making?

by Daniel Glassman

Published on July 3, 2026

Features/Photography

Two recent exhibitions by photographer Jeff Wall invite further reflection about the role of documentary and capturing life within a single frame.

A mosaic of film stills — Clockwise from top left: *King's Court*, *Balakrishna*, *No Address*, *Impressions of Expo '67*, *Gurdeep Singh Bains* | All photos courtesy of the NFB. *King's Court* photo by O'Shane Howard

10 Docs for Canada Day that Capture Life in the Land of the Maple Leaf

by Nidhil Vohra

Published on June 30, 2026

Features

Celebrate Canada Day with these 10 NFB docs that capture a diversity of experiences from across the country.

Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman is pictured sitting at a desk with one hand raised to prop up his head and the other arm resting on the desk. He is a white man in his 80s with curly grey hair, and is wearing a black golf shirt. He is looking directly into the camera. The background shows a bright, rustic room with big windows. — Frederick Wiseman in 2014 | Ideale Audence / Alamy Stock Photo

Goodbye to the Wisest Man in Documentaries

by Marc Glassman

Published on June 29, 2026

Features

Remembering Frederick Wiseman, the documentary filmmaker with a long career observing institutions, structures, and la comédie humaine.

A nighttime image shows the northern lights with ripple through the sky like a Pride flag — *Small Town Pride* | CBC

Guide to Pride: 10 Docs to End Pride Month on a High

by Nidhil Vohra

Published on June 26, 2026

Features

To end Pride month off on a high, POV has put together a list of 10 documentaries that will make you laugh, cry, learn, and celebrate love.

Chris Everts and Martina Navratilova sit on a couch. They are watching a TV that is outside the frame and have animated expressions on their faces. They are both white women in their late 60s with short-cropped blond hair. The couch is white and the room is bright. — Netflix

Chris & Martina: The Final Set Review – Serving a Healthy Rivalry

by Pat Mullen

Published on June 26, 2026

Reviews

Tennis pros Chris Everts and Martina Navratilova look back at their friendly rivalry as they fight cancer together in Netflix doc Chris & Martina: The Final Set.