POV: Canada's documentary magazine

  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise
Stream Canadian documentaries at NFB.ca

Alex Gibney

TIFF Docs Line-up Returns with Hot-Button Topics and Wide-Reaching Slate

by Pat Mullen
August 5, 2026
Features/TIFF

TIFF Docs line-up for 2026 festival includes new films by Barbara Kopple, Alex Gibney, Mila Aung-Thwin, Sophie Fiennes, and Barry Avrich.

Keep Reading
Director/producer Ric Esther Bienstock at Cornell protest encampment with DOP Elad Winkler, 024

Oh! The Misery and the Joy! A Conversation with Ric Esther Bienstock

by Barri Cohen
February 27, 2026
Features/Interviews

Veteran director/producer Ric Esther Bienstock reflects upon a career in documentary, from Ebola to porn, and her latest project with Alex Gibney.

Keep Reading

The Bibi Files Review: What’s New on Netanyahu?

by Marc Glassman
September 10, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

Screening at TIFF as a work in progress , Alexis Bloom's The Bibi Files offers leaked interrogation footage of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Keep Reading

TIFF Adds Doc The Bibi Files Featuring Interrogation Footage of Netanyahu

by Pat Mullen
September 3, 2024
TIFF

TIFF adds The Bibi Files to TIFF Docs slate. Film by Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney features never-before-seen interrogation footage of Netanyahu.

Keep Reading

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon Review – Of Ghosts and Empty Sockets

by Jason Gorber
September 16, 2023
Reviews/TIFF

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, Alex Gibney's sprawling portrait of Paul Simon, is a triumphant celebration and a missed opportunity.

Keep Reading

Swan Song, Nickelback, Paul Simon Lead First TIFF Doc Titles

by Pat Mullen
July 24, 2023
TIFF

TIFF announces first Galas and Special Presentations titles for 2023 festival including films by Chelsea McMullan, Leigh Brooks, and Alex Gibney.

Keep Reading

The Crime of the Century Review: A towering examination of the Opioid Crisis

by Marc Glassman
May 7, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

We all know that way too many people have died from overdosing on supposedly legal drugs, but have you looked at the numbers lately? In Alex Gibney’s brilliant new investigative series The

Keep Reading

Totally Under Control Review: Trump’s Pandemic of Stupidity

by Pat Mullen
October 16, 2020
Reviews

Totally Under Control (USA, 124 min.) Dir. Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan Totally Under Control ends with a title card informing viewers that American President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 one

Keep Reading

TIFF 2020: Enemies of the State Review

by Pat Mullen
September 12, 2020
Reviews/TIFF

One unexpected twist anticipates another in Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the State. The film is a jaw-dropper of a wild-but-true tale that leaves a viewer guessing.

Keep Reading

Netflix Reclaims Its True Crime Credence with ‘The Innocence Files’

by Pat Mullen
April 15, 2020
Reviews

Netflix reclaims its true crime credence with The Innocence Files. After the hugely entertaining, but highly flawed and ethically dubious, quarantine sensation of Tiger King comes this nine-part feat of investigative rigour. The Innocence Files admittedly lacks the

Keep Reading
1 2 Next

Search

Advertisement

The est Docs on the Big Screen Hot Docs Cinema

E-Newsletter

SUBSCRIBE

An archival image of rocker Carole Pope seated in a backwards folding chair. She is wearing a black leather jumpsuit and boots. This is a cover for POV issue #125 with the letters POV in bright pink and the subtitle The Antidiva in yellow.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

Follow POV

Advertisement

The est Docs on the Big Screen Hot Docs Cinema

On Instagram

pov_magazine

Canada's #documentary magazine

Get animated! Watch these 10 @onf_nfb films that i Get animated! Watch these 10 @onf_nfb films that ingeniously blend animation and documentary. 📽

🔗Full list at povmagazine.com

#film #movies #animation #nowwatching #cdnfilm
This Netflix doc has Super-sized familiarity, but This Netflix doc has Super-sized familiarity, but you won't feel like chicken tonight afterward. 🐔

📽 Big Chicken: A Fat Food Conspiracy is now on Netflix

🔗 Review in bio

#moviereview #Documentary #Netflix #chicken #food
🚨 TIFF Docs Line-up! 🚨 Ahead of the big announcem 🚨 TIFF Docs Line-up! 🚨

Ahead of the big announcement, we spoke with TIFF Docs Lead Programmer Thom Powers and Canadian programmers Jason Anderson and Kelly Boutsalis to learn more about this year's documentary line-up.

Highlights include

- Union Town
- Rapinoe
- The Ultra Runner
- Still Night, Burning House
- Musk
- Turtle Island Rap
- Ba's Book
- Low Lies the Land
- Bleeding Hearts (🎵)

- and more!

🔗 Get the full scoop at the link in our bio.

#tiff26 #TIFF #tiffdocs #documentary #movies film
We have Wavelengths! 🌊 @tiff_net announces its ex We have Wavelengths! 🌊

@tiff_net announces its experimental slate with ONE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM leading the feature docs. Lots of Wavelengths alumni hop aboard too.

🔗 Link in bio for film lineup. 

#tiff26 #Wavelengths #film #cinema #tiff
On "Filming in Retrospect." Gabrielle Brady and P On "Filming in Retrospect."

Gabrielle Brady and Poh Lin Lee reflect upon the collaborative process of @islandofthehungryghosts and @wolvesalwayscomeatnight. Read more about their approach to hybrid cinema in this exchange, now online from our spring issue!

📖 POV issue 125

🔗 link in bio. 

#filmmaking #film #movies #creativity #teamwork
True to spirit, a documentary about Peter Asher se True to spirit, a documentary about Peter Asher sees the music man uplift everyone around him. 

📽 now playing in theatres; @hotdocs_ Aug. 1

🔗 review link in bio

📷 George Elam / ANL / Shutterstock

#moviereview #music #peterasher #movies #film
Logging a film on Letterboxd < Adding a lifer on @ Logging a film on Letterboxd < Adding a lifer on @merlin.bird.id 🦉

Witness the adventures of Flaco the owl in urban birding fable #WildInside!

🔗 Review in bio

📽 In select theatres July 31; @hotdocs_ Aug. 8 & 16

#birds #birding #movies #moviereview
Cats 🤝 Chris Marker Subscribe for more cat fancy Cats 🤝 Chris Marker

Subscribe for more cat fancy in #POV126 coming this fall! 😻

#cats #chrismarker #movies #film
You won't find a deeper dive this summer than @ali You won't find a deeper dive this summer than @alifeilluminatedfilm 🦑

🔗 Link to @filmfest_ca's interview with @tashavanzandt & Dr. Edie Widder in bio. 

📽 A Life Illuminated is now playing in select theatres. 

#ALifeIlluminated #movies #science #oceans #documentary
Follow Us

Categories

  • Essays
  • Features
  • Festivals
  • Hot Docs
  • Industry
  • Interviews
  • Lists
  • News
  • Photography
  • Reviews
  • RIDM
  • Sundance
  • TIFF

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Now Streaming: Nirvanna the Band the Show – Nothing like a Good Time
  • Stop/Motion: 10 NFB Docs that Blend Animation and Documentary
  • Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy Review – Familiar Nuggets
  • TIFF Docs Line-up Returns with Hot-Button Topics and Wide-Reaching Slate
  • TIFF Announces Wavelengths Titles for 2026 Festival

See the Best Docs on the Big Screen at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
CCA
OAC
Government of Ontario

Latest Posts

Now Streaming: Nirvanna the Band the Show – Nothing like a Good Time

August 8, 2026
A dark pastel portrait of a man wearing a suit. His hand is to his chin, expressing deep thought. The image is a sombre palette of browns and greys.

Stop/Motion: 10 NFB Docs that Blend Animation and Documentary

August 7, 2026

Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy Review – Familiar Nuggets

August 5, 2026

TIFF Docs Line-up Returns with Hot-Button Topics and Wide-Reaching Slate

August 5, 2026

TIFF Announces Wavelengths Titles for 2026 Festival

August 4, 2026

SUBSCRIBE

An archival image of rocker Carole Pope seated in a backwards folding chair. She is wearing a black leather jumpsuit and boots. This is a cover for POV issue #125 with the letters POV in bright pink and the subtitle The Antidiva in yellow.

CURRENT ISSUE

Issue 125: Spring/Summer 2026

Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

Tags

activism Archive biography Black Stories Canadian film celebrity COVID-19 Documentary Organization of Canada environment experimental family film on film Hot Docs Hot Docs 2016 Hot Docs 2017 Hot Docs 2018 Hot Docs 2019 Hot Docs 2021 Hot Docs 2022 Hot Docs 2023 Hot Docs 2024 Hot Docs 2025 Human Rights hybrid film Indigenous interviews LGBTQ mental health migration music Netflix NFB Oscars Photography politics RIDM Short Docs Sports Sundance TIFF TIFF Docs True Crime TV Women Youth

© All articles copyright Point of View Magazine. No work may be reproduced without our express written consent.
Toronto, ON • Canada

  • Browse Docs By
  • Articles
  • Festivals
  • Issue Archive
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • Browse Docs By
    • Biography
    • Celebrity
    • Doc Classics
    • Environment
    • Film on Film
    • Experimental
    • History
    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Film
    • Indigenous
    • LGBTQ
    • Music Docs
    • Politics
    • Short Docs
    • Sports
    • True Crime
  • Articles
    • Reviews
    • News
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Industry
    • Essays
    • Lists
    • Photography
  • Festivals
    • Hot Docs
    • TIFF
    • Sundance
    • RIDM
    • Cannes
    • DOXA
  • Issue Archive
    • Current Issue
  • Subscribe
    • Subscribe in Print
    • Digital
    • Newsletter
  • About
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Who We Are
    • Governance
    • Advertise
Go toTop
0 $0.00