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In 2018 alone, three documentaries: Won\\u2019t You Be My Neighbor, RBG, and Three Identical Strangers have exceeded $10 million at the domestic box office, a remarkable trend considering only 25 other documentaries has reached this milestone in the past 35 years. To find out what is leading to this sudden increase in the genre\\u2019s popularity, Rob and Geoff are joined by TIFF programmer, and host of the documentary themed podcast \\u2018Pure Nonfiction\\u2019, Thom Powers.

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Powers discusses how \\u201cdocumentary\\u201d went from a dirty word to a financially viable genre, \\xa0how Netflix helped expand the artform, and the technological innovations that have changed the genre for the better.

He then goes through some of the more anticipated documentary titles coming to TIFF next month including: Michael Moore\\u2019s Fahrenheit 11/9, Werner Herzog\\u2019s Meeting Gorbachev, Alexis Bloom\\u2019s Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, John Chester\\u2019s The Biggest Little Farm, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin\\u2019s Free Solo, and Errol Morris\\u2019 American Dharma.