Acclaimed filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker discuss the MOF competition, the value of craftsmanship, career education, and the process of documentary filmmaking.

Celebrating its 24th season on PBS, POV features the work of the best independent documentary filmmakers from America and around the world. Airing Tuesdays at 10 PM during the summer, with primetime specials during the year, POV has brought more than 300 award-winning documentaries to millions nationwide.

In this new online-only series, we'll be featuring current and past interviews with some of the most influential documentary filmmakers working today. In this episode, Alan Berliner talks about the idea of family, its influence on his work and the creative process of collage.

In this new online-only series, we'll be featuring current and past interviews with some of the most influential documentary filmmakers working today. In this episode, Jane Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio talk about what started them making nonfiction films, their collaborative process - both with each other and their subjects - and share their advice for young filmmakers.

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock talk about the making of Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner. She says "People who've been around Tony in a public setting are often surprised at how he really touches them. Someone once described him as the most charming dissident around!"

In this new online-only series, we'll be featuring current and past interviews with some of the most influential documentary filmmakers working today. In this episode, Freida Lee Mock talks about her motivations and her process as a filmmaker, what makes a good character and the evolution of the documentary genre.

In this clip from "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg" and the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg talks about how the knowledge he had about the Pentagon Papers made him an accomplice to the government's secrets, and how he decided that he would be willing to risk prosecution to bring these secrets to light.

The filmmakers of the Oscar-nominated "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" discuss the making of the film.

On September 13, 2010, the New York Times Community Affairs Department and POV presented a panel discussion on the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, and the Times. The conversation, featuring Daniel Ellsberg, Max Frankel, former New York Times executive editor, and Adam Liptak, New York Times Supreme Court reporter, was moderated by Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times.

Filmmakers Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith talk about parallels between the Vietnam War and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the importance of the press, why Daniel Ellsberg is such a compelling character and more.

2010 Oscar Nominee - Best Documentary Feature: In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America's role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

Filmmaker Laura Poitras talks about making "The Oath" in Yemen and Guantanamo, what drew her to work in the midst of Al Qaeda operatives, what she thinks of Abu Jandal, the slippery and complex character at the heart of her film and more.

"The Oath" interweaves the stories of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo facing war crimes charges. Directed by Laura Poitras, "The Oath" unfolds via a narrative rife with plot twists and betrayals that ultimately leads to 9/11, Guantanamo and the Supreme Court.

U.S. military lawyer Brian Mizer talks about the case of Salim Hamdan, the former driver of Osama bin Laden.

The pre-trial phase of terrorist suspect Salim Hamdan's military tribunal begins at Guantanamo. Hamdan's military lawyer, Brian Mizer, talks to the press about Hamdan's defense and his case.

A military jury sentences terrorist suspect Salim Hamdan to time served, plus five months. This is a more lenient sentence than most observers expected. Hamdan's defense attorneys talk about his case at a press conference.

Prisoner Salim Hamdan is shown on grainy video footage from a jail cell in Afghanistan in November 2001. Seventeen months later, Hamdan is imprisoned in Guantánamo and writes a letter to his brother-in-law.

In this clip from "In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee," filmmaker Deann Liem Borshay talks about the historical events in Korea that shaped her destiny as a Korean-born adoptee sent to America during the 1960s.

Filmmaker Deann Liem Borshay talks about her birth mother's history of struggle in Korea. After the Korean War, Borshay's mother was left with 5 small children and no husband or means of supporting her family. Borshay explains that any anger she has for her birth mother was mitigated after she heard the story of her situation.

Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem talks about the making of "In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee," walking in somebody else's shoes and more.