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Emmy Contender 'John Candy: I Like Me'
May 5, 2026
46m 29s
Impact Of Paramount-WBD Merger On Docs
Apr 28, 2026
57m 14s
Makers Of 'Newport And The Great Folk Dream' And 'All Of The Above'
Apr 21, 2026
1h 01m 52s
American Cinematheque's This Is Not A Fiction Festival
Apr 14, 2026
46m 42s
Report From 2026 CPH:DOX
Apr 7, 2026
1h 00m 09s
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| 5/5/26 | Emmy Contender 'John Candy: I Like Me' | Producer-director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds join the show to share stories of making John Candy: I Like Me, their cinematic exploration of the beloved Canadian actor and SCTV sketch performer. Candy's two children plus many of his friends and famous collaborators — Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and many others — appear in this Prime Video film, a strong Emmy contender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 46m 29s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | Impact Of Paramount-WBD Merger On Docs | The proposed merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery would reshape the documentary landscape, putting HBO Documentary Films, CNN Films, HBO Max, Paramount+, MTV Documentary Films and more under one roof. As major stars and filmmakers write an open letter protesting the merger, we speak with documentary veterans Marjan Safinia and Lois Vossen about the impact of the planned alliance on the nonfiction film community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 57m 14s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | Makers Of 'Newport And The Great Folk Dream' And 'All Of The Above' | We report from the 18th Milwaukee Film Festival, speaking two makers of two documentaries in the festival lineup: All of the Above, and Newport and the Great Folk Dream. All of the Above focuses on a world religions class taught in a Chicago public high school, while Newport examines the iconic music festival renowned for performances by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 01m 52s | ||||||
| 4/14/26 | American Cinematheque's This Is Not A Fiction Festival | Now entering its third year, the American Cinematheque's This Is Not a Fiction festival in Los Angeles has emerged as a major event for documentary lovers. We speak with AC film programmer Cindy Flores about this year's festival, running April 16-24. It will feature some of the greatest names in documentary, including Barbara Kopple, Gianfranco Rosi, Ross McElwee, Caveh Zahedi, and Liz Garbus among many others. The festival also features a robust lineup of mockumentaries, like Best in Show, Popstar: Never Stop Stopping, and Jackass Number Two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 46m 42s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 | Report From 2026 CPH:DOX | Doc Talk reports from CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm shares his highlights from the 2026 edition of the world-class festival and tells us how CPH:DOX keeps politicians at "arms length" to avoid outside interference in the program. And we visit with directors Hansen Lin and Siyi Chen who pitched their documentary Queens Ballroom at the CPH:FORUM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 00m 09s | ||||||
| 3/31/26 | 'My Undesirable Friends' Director Julia Loktev | Filmmaker Julia Loktev joins us to discuss her award-winning documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, which chronicles the last independent television news source in Russia. The journalists in the film, mostly young women, found themselves treated as enemies of the state for daring to stray outside the bounds of Kremlin-approved reportage, victims of a crackdown on press freedom that only got worse after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 41m 20s | ||||||
| 3/24/26 | Juliette Binoche And Thessaloniki Doc Festival's Yorgos Krassakopoulos | Oscar winner Juliette Binoche speaks about her directorial debut, the documentary In-I In Motion that explores the creative process behind a unique dance and theater project she co-created with dancer-choreographer Akram Khan. The film screened at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece, where we also spoke with Head of Program Yorgos Krassakopoulos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 42m 05s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | Oscar Takeways Plus Directors Of True/False Films 'Phenomena' And 'Pinball' | Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey discuss why Mr. Nobody Against Putin prevailed as Best Documentary Feature in an upset at the Oscars. And we talk with makers of two films that just premiered at the True/False documentary festival in Columbia, MO: Josef Gatti, director of Phenomena, and director Naveen Chaubal and producer Bryn Silverman of Pinball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 02m 32s | ||||||
| 3/10/26 | 'Pompei: Below The Clouds' Director Gianfranco Rosi | Oscar nominee Gianfranco Rosi joins the show to discuss his latest documentary feature, the lustrous Pompei: Below the Clouds, an immesion into Naples, the southern Italian city in the shadow of volcanic Mount Vesuvius. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 55m 23s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | Berlinale Filmmakers Anna Fitch, Banker White, And Mark Cousins | We report from the European Film Market's DocSalon in Berlin, where several filmmakers discussed their work premiering in the Berlinale: Anna Fitch and Banker White, directors of YO (Love Is a Rebellious Bird), which won a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, and Mark Cousins, director of the 16-chapter The Story of Documentary Film. Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey also remember late filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, and they examine the implications of Paramount's emergence as the successful bidder for Warner Bros Discovery, home, among other things, to HBO Documentary Films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 06m 31s | ||||||
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| 2/25/26 | Directors Of Oscar Nominee 'Cutting Through Rocks' | Filmmakers Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni discuss their 8-year journey making the feature documentary Cutting Through Rocks, which has earned them their first Oscar nominations. The New York-based directors returned to their native Iran to tell the story of a remarkable woman in a rural northwestern part of the country who defied the intensely patriarchal culture to run for a seat on the local council. Cutting Through Rocks, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, is the only Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary still without U.S. distribution, making its success all the more impressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 46m 44s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 | 'Man On The Run' Director Morgan Neville | Oscar winner Morgan Neville's new documentary Man on the Run offers an intimate look at Paul McCartney in the 10 years after he left the Beatles, as he tried to establish a new musical and personal identity after the dissolution of rock n' roll's most iconic band. The filmmaker explains how he approached interviewing Sir Paul to gain fresh insight into the least examined aspect of McCartney's career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 42m 20s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | Oscar Nominees 'All The Empty Rooms' & 'The Devil Is Busy' | We're joined by the makers of two Oscar-nominated short documentaries: Joshua Seftel, director of All the Empty Rooms, and Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton, directors of The Devil Is Busy (Gandbhir is separately nominated for directing the feature documentary The Perfect Neighbor). Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey also get into whether the new Melania documentary should be considered a success or a flop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 58m 58s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | Sundance Filmmakers Michał Marczak, Poh Si Teng, Alex Gibney & More | Doc Talk reports from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, speaking with the directors of Closure, American Doctor, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, The Brittney Griner Story, and Jane Elliott Against the World. We also hear from Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, and WNBA star Griner about participating in their respective documentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 05m 26s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | Oscar Nominations Reaction & Sundance Interviews | Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey react to the Oscar nominations — dominated in the Best Documentary Feature category by films that premiered at Sundance. We also report from the 2026 edition of Sundance, speaking with the makers of Ghost in the Machine (premiereing in the NEXT section) and Joybubbles (premiering in U.S. Documentary Competition). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 08m 02s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | Sundance Doc Programmers Basil Tsiokos & Sudeep Sharma | Sundance documentary programmers Basil Tsiokos and Sudeep Sharma share insights on the nonfiction film lineup for the 2026 festival, the final one to be held in Park City, Utah. They share their picks for must-see documentary features in competition, NEXT and other sections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 15s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | Oscar-Shortlisted Filmmakers Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, David Borenstein, and Richard Ladkani | We're joined by several filmmakers hoping to earn an Oscar nomination for their documentary features: Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, directors of The Alabama Solution; David Borenstein, director of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, and Richard Ladkani, director of Yanuni. In the Yanuni segment, we'll also speak with the producer and protagonist of the film, Brazilian Indigenous activist Juma Xipaia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 02m 17s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | Oscar-Shortlisted Documentaries | We explore three shortlisted documentaries: from Come See Me in the Good Light, director Ryan White joins us; director Amber Fares of Coexistence, My Ass! visits Doc Talk studios with the protagonist of her film, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi; and from the short documentary We Were the Scenery, we welcome director Christopher Radcliff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 06m 48s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 | Documentary Shortlists 98th Oscars | Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey dissect the documentary shortlists for the 98th Academy Awards. There were major snubs (a NatGeo darling and a celebrity-oriented HBO doc) — and surprising inclusions (numerous films without U.S. distribution). Oscar winner Ridley (12 Years a Slave) gets into the documentaries that should have made the cut but didn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 51m 14s | ||||||
| 12/17/25 | Filmmakers Victor Kossakovsky and Lynne Sachs | Filmmakers Victor Kossakofsky and Lynne Sachs join us for a conversation about their latest documentaries, which premiered at IDFA. Kossakovsky's Trillion unfolds in lustrous black and white, without dialogue. Sachs' film, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, begins with her going through a stack of 600 business cards she has collected over decades, and reveals what happens when she reaches out to some of those contacts. Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey also discuss top documentary titles heading to Sundance 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 14m 22s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | Winners Of The IDA Documentary Awards | We report from the 41st Annual IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles, speaking with newly-minted winners as they come off stage. Joining us are Tamara Kotevska (The Tale of Silyan); Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino (Apocalypse in the Tropics); Brittany Shyne (Seeds); Alex Megaro (WTO/99), and Jenny Raskin of Impact Partners (winner of the IDA's Pioneer Award). We explore what the IDA validation means for these creatives, as well as the topic on everyone's minds: how the potential merger of Netflix and Warner Bros Discovery would impact documentary filmmakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 53m 58s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | Trio Of Oscar-Contending Documentary Features | We speak with the filmmakers behind three of the top contenders in the Oscars' Best Documentary Feature category: The Tale of Silyan, directed by Tamara Kotevska; Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, directed by Sepideh Farsi, and Cover-Up, directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. We caught up with them at SFFILM's Doc Stories in San Francisco, a 4-day film festival that has become a critical stop during awards season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 01m 19s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 | Report From IDFA With Festival Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez And Filmmaker Petra Costa | Doc Talk travels to Amsterdam for IDFA, the world's biggest docmentary festival. We speak with new Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez about assuming leadership of the festival after many years heading up the IDFA Bertha Fund. Arrate Fernandez discusses reaction to the festival's controversial decision to ban Israeli organiations that accept money from Israel's government to support their activities. We also visit with Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa in Amsterdam. Her Oscar-contendng Netflix documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, explores the rise of Christian nationalism in Brazil. Costa tells us her film has directly led to the launch of an investigation into her protagonist, fiery televangelist Sila Malafaia, a key backer of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 07m 15s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | Richard Gere And Oren Moverman On 'Wisdom Of Happiness' | Wisdom of Happiness executive producers Richard Gere and Oren Moverman join us for a conversation about their documentary focusing on the Dalai Lama's insights into finding happiness in a world that seems full of chaos and uncertainty. Gere tells us how a technique borrowed from filmmaker Errol Morris helped transform the film into "pure magic." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 35m 38s | ||||||
| 11/11/25 | Doc Stories' Anne Lai And Jessie Fairbanks Plus 'A Life Illuminated' Director | Doc Talk heads to San Francisco for SFFILM's Doc Stories festival, where we speak with SFFILM Executive Director Anne Lai and Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks. We also visit with young filmmaker Tasha Van Zandt whose documentary A Life Illuminated closed the Doc Stories festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 04m 30s | ||||||
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