PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary

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

913 results


Piece image
Whites too often see themselves as the real victims of racism and they might have point but it’s not the one they thought they were making. Are whi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:32
Piece image
Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Missi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:14:23
Piece image
Education is the gateway to the future in America. Our system is built around it but major colleges and universities continue to be predominantly w...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:16:43
Piece image
Don Carter is a former police officer who spent nearly 10 years on the beat. He knows how the system works. He's also African American.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:29:21
Piece image
Being black in America is exhausting and even deadly. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is real and impacts the health and well-being of millions. What i...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:06:39
Piece image
His work helped close four of the most infamous cold cases of the Civil Right Movement. Jerry Mitchell is one of the most celebrated investigative ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 48:16
Piece image
When we say the words, “the talk”, it probably conjures up the awkward conversation one has with their children about the birds and the bees. Howev...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:43
Piece image
YOU SHOULD KNOW BILLY JOE SHAVER is a program about the Texas singer-songwriter who ROLLING STONE magazine called "an outlaw-country pioneer who wr...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KGLT, KSRQ, KSJE, WMMT and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jerry Jeff Walker
A program celebrating the life and music of singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker...who died in October of 2020 at the age of 78. Paul Ingles hosts w...

Bought by North State Public Radio, WRGY, WMMT, KSJE, and KUHF


  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: A country show like no other
In this episode of Dollar Country we go in depth into a handful of different murder ballads. Featuring music by Eddie Noack, Doc Watson, The Louvi...

Bought by KSTK and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Patti Scialfa & Bruce Springsteen
A LIMITED SERIES. Part 3 of 3. Producer Paul Ingles gathers 7 top music writers to talk about their favorite Bruce Springsteen tracks from the mus...

Bought by North State Public Radio, WGUC/ WVXU, and KSJE


  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
1894 Cazadero train wreck, Gaye Lebaron on Black Bart, the restoration of Duncans Mills, the History of Pole Mountain Lookout, and more!

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 57:30
Piece image
The JSP Records label recently released a new album of unreleased material of Chicago's Bluesman Fenton Robinson which was recorded in England and ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:56
Piece image
Dion has been in the music business for over 60 years. For the past decade he's turned his attention to the Blues and recently came out with a new ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:57
Piece image
We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Piece image
We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

Bought by WNCW, WHRV, WKMS, North State Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Piece image
We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
Piece image
An 89 minute version of THE WILD RIDE OF JERRY LEE LEWIS. (There is a 59:00 / 54:00 version at PRX as well - see link in station info). Music d...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:28:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tony Urbano, Credit: Tony Urbano
Tony Urbano is a puppeteer who was trained by and worked with master puppeteers such as Ralph Chessé and Bil and Cora Baird. Tony turned down a job...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 01:37:03
Piece image
Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents an exploration and celebration of the music and often times controversial story of rock legend Jerry Lee L...

Bought by KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUPR low power FM, KRVS, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
Piece image
A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:37
Piece image
Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents an exploration and celebration of the music of rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis with music critics Joe Bonomo, ...

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:59