PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

49 results


Six Chairs: Rowan Pope, Voice to Vision and the Holocaust Book Project
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
Inside the St. Cloud Correctional Facility
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
No one wants to go to prison, but when the St. Cloud Correctional Facility opened its doors to the press last year during its 125th anniversary, KF...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:12
St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
The golden dome of St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church has long been a part of the south Minneapolis skyline. KFAI producer Britt Aamodt visits the ch...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
Minnesota's state flag
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
The Minnesota state flag has a history that dates back more than 120 years. Throughout that time, the flag has received both praise and criticism f...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:28
A trip down memory lanes
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
Bowling as a competitive sport and family pastime peaked decades ago. The game still exists, but with fewer participants. KFAI producer Bill Lindek...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
James J. Hill's Minnesota legacy
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 2
Saving paradise: protecting Minnesota prairies
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
Interrogators Without Pliers
From: Matt Thompson
Caption: Hanns Scharff "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe, Credit: Scharff Estate
Why torture doesn't work. How to trick the enemy into revealing secrets. Lessons from the Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. The British Poli...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 27:31
  • Purchases: 2
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
Second Chance Diploma: Examining the GED
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Studying for the GED at an adult education school in Washington, D.C., Credit: Emily Hanford
Millions of high school dropouts hope their ticket to a better job is getting a GED. But critics say passing a test is not the same as getting a hi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, WITF, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Island Signs
From: Dylan Peers McCoy
Piece image
This is the story of the life and death of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language. It was produced for the Transom Story Workshop.*

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:21
  • Purchases: 1
Space Dives
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
Piece image
This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix
The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Near vs. Minnesota - The First Great Press Case
From: Susan Gray
Piece image
When Minneapolis officials shut down a scandal sheet publisher for printing malicious and defamatory material it sparked our country's first debate...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:37
Culturology: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Lyric Center for the Arts - Virginia, MN
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Hidden History of a One Room School
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Harrington School, Credit: PGraitcer
When the tiny African American community on Georgia's St Simon's Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize that the buildi...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
Grounded: The End of the Shuttle Era and the Future of Manned Space Flight
From: KUT
Piece image
“Grounded: The End of the Shuttle Era and the Future of Manned Space Flight,” is a special report from KUT News exploring mission, place and what i...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 52:25
  • Purchases: 1
How 'Quality of Life' turned Homeless New Yorkers into Criminals
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 17:01
The Near Death of Reagan National Airport After 9/11
From: David Schultz
Caption: Reagan National Airport was almost permanently closed in the days after the 9/11 attacks., Credit: WikiCommons
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 06:07
Dick Armey at National Press Club
From: National Press Club
Piece image
Dick Armey, the former House Majority Leader, speaks about conservatism at the National Press Club.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
The Soul of U St.
From: NPR Intern Edition
Piece image
Before there was Harlem, there was U Street.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:47
The Return of Fine Cider
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: Steve Wood, owner of Poverty Lane Orchards., Credit: Scott McIntyre
A fine cider revival could provide a lifeline to struggling New Hampshire apple growers.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2009
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 4
A T-Rex Named Sue
From: Kara Sautter
Caption: Sue at the Stearns County History Museum, Credit: Minnesot Public Radio
A cast of the largest and most complete T-Rex ever found has traveled to the Stearns County History Museum in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:22
Calexico Episode I: Bordering on a State of Mind
From: James McKee
Series: Calexico: The True Story of Life in the California Borderlands
Caption: Calexico - Mexicali, Credit: Peter Laufer
Washington Monthly's Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis report on the Mexican-American Borderlands in this five-part series.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, KQED, and KALW


  • Added: Jul 03, 2009
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 4