'Oscar Docs' 2022:  Listen to the interviews with the filmmakers of this year's Oscar-nominated feature-length documentaries and pick your favorite.  

"Attica"

Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry

Stanley Nelson Jr., MacArthur 'genius' fellow and documentary filmmaker of many films, including "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities" and "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution," talks about the Oscar-nominated documentary "Attica" about the 1971 prison uprising and what it still shows us about prison conditions today.  

 →"Attica" is available for streaming on Amazon Prime and Showtime.

"Writing With Fire"

Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

Sushmit Ghosh and Khabar Lahariya discuss their film "Writing With Fire" about India's only women-run newspaper, as it moves from print to digital and its impact expands.

→"Writing With Fire" makes its television debut on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS at 10pm on Monday, March 28.

"登楼叹 Ascension"

Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell

Jessica Kingdon, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor of the Oscar-nominated feature documentary "登楼叹 Ascension", talks about her film and the story it tells about the "Chinese Dream" and today's consumer capitalism.

→"Ascension" is available for streaming on Paramount Plus.

"Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)"

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, musician, songwriter, director of "Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)," talks about the Oscar nomination for his film, which was put together from long-forgotten footage of 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival.

"Summer of Soul" is in theaters and streaming on Hulu.

"Flee"

Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie

Jonas Poher Rasmussen, writer and director of the Oscar-nominated feature documentary Flee, talks about his film, which uses animation to tell the story of his friend Amin's journey from Afghanistan as a child and how that history impacts his life now.

"Flee" is in theaters, available for at-home rentals, and streaming on Hulu.