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Five Docs for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

by Pat Mullen
September 30, 2022
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Documentary recommendations for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation include Returning Home, For Love, and Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair.

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The Top Docs About Black Women Artists

by Gesilayefa Azorbo
June 20, 2022
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Beba, Beyoncé's Homecoming, Miss Sharon Jones, 20 Feet from Stardom, What Happened, Miss Simon?, and Step are among a wave of docs celebrating Black excellence by women in the arts.

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Some Black Podcasts to Diversify Your Playlist

by T.K. Matunda
January 12, 2021August 10, 2021
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Often podcasting networks would relegate racialized stories to their race podcast, simultaneously profiting off of appearing “woke” while limiting the scope of stories that could be told and who would hear them.

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The Best Documentaries of 2020

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 24, 2020August 10, 2021
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The best documentaries of 2020 include Boys State, The Viewing Booth, Collective, Pahokee, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, 76 Days, The Truffle Hunters, and Wintopia.

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10 to Watch for World AIDS Day: Screening the Pandemic

by Matthew Hays
December 1, 2020August 11, 2021
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On World AIDS Day, films like

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Black Lives Matter On Screen

by Marc Glassman
June 11, 2020August 19, 2021
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Criterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.

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30 Indigenous Films from the NFB You Ought to See

by Michelle van Beusekom
May 4, 2020January 3, 2022
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Must see Indigenous documentaries and movies from the National Film Board of Canada.

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The Best Canadian Documentaries of 2019

by Marc Glassman
December 26, 2019August 21, 2021
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The standout Canadian docs of 2019 include nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, This Is Not a Movie, The Corporate Coup d'État, Toxic Beauty, and Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies.

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The Best International Documentaries of 2019

by Pat Mullen
December 26, 2019August 29, 2021
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POV's picks for the best international docs of 2019 include One Child Nation, American Factory, For Sama, Honeyland, Apollo 11, Desert One, Rolling Thunder Revue, and more!

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Now We Are 80 – NFB Top Tens

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman Andrew McIntosh Dorothy Woodend Judy Wolfe Matthew Hays Maya Gallus Susan G. Cole
December 21, 2019November 1, 2021
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To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada, eight POV writers share their picks for the top ten films in the history of the NFB. From documentary features,

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