PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary
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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 20:40
"What Blood, What Earth", is a documentary on the life of Puerto Rican black metal artist MQ. His story leads the listener on a journey from pre-co...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 27:20
He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 26:10
2008 was an exciting time to be a Harry Potter fan. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, had been released. Movies were on the way...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 22:36
- Purchases: 1
Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 23:29
Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Bo...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 2
In 2010, an eighth-grader brought a loaded gun to a middle school in Hastings, Minnesota. We speak with two students and the principal about the mi...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 19:06
- Purchases: 1
Michael Ross was the first person in Connecticut to be sentenced to death since 1960. He claimed that he wanted to die in order to atone for what h...
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 27:50
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:18
A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 30:20
In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier’s stash house. He was told he’d take home between $100K...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 19:35
Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and upped her game...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 19:28
- Purchases: 1
Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 21:41
- Purchases: 2
On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 17:25
- Purchases: 2
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 50:59
- Purchases: 2
There are plenty of things we don’t share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you’re both in the business of death.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 28, 2014
- Length: 14:24
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 01:44
Biloxi, Mississippi, 3 a.m. The attackers advanced from the dark.
The violence was sudden, intense. Forester's cheek, nose and two ribs were brok...
Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 15:28
- Purchases: 3
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.
Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2009
- Length: 13:48
- Purchases: 6
A single mother and her two teenage daughters tell the harrowing story of the girls' descent into an underworld of drugs and homelessness.
- Added: Apr 10, 2007
- Length: 34:20
- Purchases: 2
