PRX » Search » Browse

PRX

Home
Pieces
Series
Playlists

PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search

View by:

199 results

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next »

Read, Read, Read!

From: Learning Matters
Series: Lessons from Haiti: Schools after the earthquake

Caption: Mackenton Louis reads to a group of kids at Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture in Port-au-Prince, Credit: Judith Scherr/Learning Matters

A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.

Added: Nov 22, 2010
Length: 07:52

Despite Budget Cuts, Youth Meet Their Own Needs

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

Added: Nov 16, 2010
Length: 02:18

The Great Textbook War

From: Trey Kay

In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER and more

Added: Sep 07, 2010
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 26

A Reason for the Purpose

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Maybe you know where your food comes from. But have you seen and heard about farming through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes? Colby Perron shares his thou...

Bought by KRZA and WMPG

Added: Jun 07, 2010
Length: 05:51
Purchases: 2

Part 1 - The Prepared Mind

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin

From Darwin's early years to his voyage of discovery on H.M.S. Beagle.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: May 07, 2010
Length: 53:51
Purchases: 1

Part 4 - Darwin's Enduring Legacy

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin

Why Science and society today are still wrestling with Darwin's big idea.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: May 07, 2010
Length: 53:47
Purchases: 1

Part 3 - Primates vs Primates

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin

What 'The Origin Of Species' said, and what was said about it.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: May 06, 2010
Length: 53:53
Purchases: 1

Part 2 - From The Beagle to the Book

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin

Darwin thinks his way to 'The Origin of Species'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: May 06, 2010
Length: 53:44
Purchases: 1

All Around Giving

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

The Trinity Jubilee Center in Lewiston, Maine is located in one of the poorest Neighborhoods in the state. It doubles as a soup kitchen and refugee...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRGY, WRIR, Raven Radio, PRX Remix and more

Added: Jan 06, 2010
Length: 05:59
Purchases: 11

Picture Day!

From: Big Shed Audio

Spend a day with a school-portrait photographer at an elementary school in the Washington, DC.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio

Added: Oct 25, 2009
Length: 03:29
Purchases: 3

Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)

From: Nancy Solomon

This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more

Added: Sep 26, 2009
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 40

Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Rolanda Scott is a glass sculptor. But she also molds young minds as an art instructor. About eight years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer ...

Added: Jun 19, 2009
Length: 28:20

Nothing To Cheer About

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

A town is divided when presented with the idea of changing the school mascot.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KWIS 88.3 FM, KUOW, KRUA and more

Added: Jan 20, 2009
Length: 07:34
Purchases: 6

Dialog in the Dark

From: Marianne Gardner

Visually impaired guides lead sighted visitors through the dark

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting

Added: Nov 11, 2008
Length: 03:29
Purchases: 1

Audio Postcard from Azerbaijan

From: Carla Seidl

Sound collage from a small village in the north of Azerbaijan

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Connecticut Public (WNPR)

Added: Nov 04, 2008
Length: 04:25
Purchases: 2

A Shortcut Back To Dallas (1963)

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas. This pro...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KVMR, and Remix Radio

Added: Sep 10, 2008
Length: 29:14
Purchases: 3

Fake City, Real Dreams

From: Zak Rosen

A fake city comes to life to prove that dialogue and ideas can transform a region.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW and more

Added: Aug 11, 2008
Length: 17:51
Purchases: 6

People Find the Drum Who Need to Find the Drum

From: Hannah Krakauer

Powwow music brings a community of Stanford students together around one common drum.

Added: Jun 08, 2008
Length: 22:59

Tibetan Kids Keep Their Culture Alive in LA

From: The Tibet Connection

Tibetan children from 6 to 14 years share their thoughts on their identity in a Tibetan language and culture class in the heart of Los Angeles

Added: Jun 06, 2008
Length: 09:12

High Tech versus High Touch: Printmaking in the Digital Age

From: Nicole Pietrantoni

The digital is expanding the definition of the print and creating a complex relationship between artists, their work, and the tools they use to cre...

Added: May 15, 2008
Length: 17:30

Paradise Lost: Military Training in Makua Valley

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Making Contact intern Samson Reiny reports on what happens when the military takes over historically sacred land and on how people are fighting bac...

Added: Jan 15, 2008
Length: 29:00

Invaders from Another Ecosystem

From: Making Contact