Bonus Episode: Best Documentaries of 2019

In this bonus episode, cohosts Bart and Chris revisit their favorite documentaries of 2019, and then invite, each in turn, all the podcast’s Season 7 guest hosts to chat about their favorites. Those guests, in order of appearance, are: Sedika Mojadidi, Betsy McLane, Anuradha Rana, Jennifer Proctor, Sonali Gulati and Patricia Aufderheide. Given how many films Chris and Bart always watch, they each listed ten films, while each guest host only listed five. Enjoy, and see you in 2020! Chris’s List (in alphabetical order): American Factory (Steven Bognar/Julia Reichert) Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller) The Brink (Alison Klayman) Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Mads Brügger) Los Reyes (Iván Osnovikoff/Bettina Perut) Maiden (Alex Holmes) Mike Wallace Is Here (Avi Belkin) One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang/Lynn Zhang) Pahokee (Patrick Bresnan/Ivete Lucas) Tell Me Who I Am (Ed Perkins) Bart’s List (in alphabetical order): Amazing Grace (Alan Elliott/Sydney Pollack) American Factory (Steven Bognar/Julia Reichert) Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller) Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops (Jenifer McShane) Flannery (Elizabeth Coffman/Mark Bosco) Hail Satan? (Penny Lane) Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (Midge Costin) Midnight Traveler (Hassan Fazili) Mike Wallace Is Here (Avi Belkin) Pahokee (Patrick Bresnan/Ivete Lucas) Sedika’s List (in alphabetical order): Amazing Grace (Alan Elliott/Sydney Pollack) American Factory (Steven Bognar/Julia Reichert) Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska/Ljubomir Stefanov) Midnight Traveler (Hassan Fazili) One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang/Lynn Zhang) Betsy’s List (in alphabetical order): American Factory (Steven Bognar/Julia Reichert) The Cave (Feras Fayyad) College Behind Bars (Lynn Novick) Fire in Paradise (Zackary Canepari/Drea Cooper) Tell Me Who I Am (Ed Perkins) Anuradha’s List (in alphabetical order): The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) The Distant Barking of Dogs (Simon Lereng Wilmont) One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang/Lynn Zhang) Our Time Machine (S. Leo Chiang/Yang Sun) Reason (Anand Patwardhan) Jennifer’s List (in alphabetical order): Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Chris Smith) Fyre Fraud (Jenner Furst/Julia Willoughby Nason) Hail Satan? (Penny Lane) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (Alex Gibney) Maiden (Alex Holmes) Sonali’s List (in alphabetical order): Always in Season (Jacqueline Olive) Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller) The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War (Kerry David) One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang/Lynn Zhang) Patricia’s List (in alphabetical order): The Apollo (Roger Ross Williams) For Sama (Waad al-Kateab/Edward Watts) Our Time Machine (S. Leo Chiang/Yang Sun) Smog Town (Meng Han) A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem (Yu Gu) Timestamps: 00:46 – Intro + Chris and Bart’s respective Top 10 lists 08:39 – Sedika Mojadidi’s top docs of the year 16:49 – Betsy McLane’s top docs of the year 24:33 – Anu Rana’s top docs of the year 30:08 – Jen Proctor’s top docs of the year 37:32 – Sonali Gulati’s top docs of the year 42:46 – Pat Aufderheide’s top docs of the year 51:03 – End credits Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com [email protected] Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moore Editing by Christopher Llewellyn Reed Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst)