PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary

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

75 results


War and Musical Dada
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
Piece image
Gil Rose, conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, tells the history of George Antheil's wild musical experiment from 1924, the Ballet Méc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 7
Life of the Law #34 - Necessity Defense
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Piece image
It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 21:04
  • Purchases: 2
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Troops aboard the General Nelson M. Walker, Credit: Vietnam Graffiti Project
Sound-rich stories from and about a Vietnam War-era troopship, in the voices of people whose lives were affected by the journey to war.

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WGCU, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:32
  • Purchases: 29
Mine Enemy: The Story of German POWs in America
From: Alison Jones
Caption: German POW Otto Schwingel and Linda Anderson on Anderson's farm near Florence, S.C., Credit: courtesy of Ingebourg Schwingel
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 89
Building 98
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: There's Something Out There
Piece image
Jenny Lynn heard strange sounds when she first spent the night at Building 98. She thought it was the wind until she told a friend and discovered t...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 1
"Changi Concert Party"
From: Margaret Evans
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
The Fighter Pilot
From: Kathy Tu
Caption: Lt. Col. Michael McGee, USAF (Ret.), Credit: Kathy Tu
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Michael McGee talks about the experience of being a fighter pilot during one of his first missions in the Gulf War, one ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis, and HowSound


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 5
Shortcuts to War & Peace-The Red Line
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Better Living Through Chemistry
Barack Obama draws a red line in regards to Syria & chemical weapons and this program reflects the tension during the past few weeks mixed with pre...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:31
Losing Pakistan: A Search for Common Ground
From: Dan Boyce
Piece image
This piece examines the tenuous state of relations between the United States and Pakistan. It follows Montana Public Radio Reporter Dan Boyce on a ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 47:43
Bonne Chance Comrades
From: Amira Anne Glickman
Piece image
This is a story of a 1940's child's journal, set against the backdrop of WWII, that records the play life of a group of boys reenacting war games i...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2013
  • Length: 52:58
Back to War
From: Traveling 219
Piece image
A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 1
The 113th Annual Army-Navy Pageant
From: War News Radio
Piece image
The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:40
Lessons of Nagasaki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
Life After War
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
Piece image
Refugees coming to the US have just a few months to find a job and a place to live. And they are 10 times as likely as the general population to su...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2
The Things They Carried - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
Piece image
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WKMS, KMUN, KUER, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
In Maine, Southern Sudanese Celebrate Independence
From: Alyce Ornella
Caption: Veterans of the Second Sudanese Civil War stand under the new flag of South Sudan., Credit: Alyce Ornella
Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...

Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
Piece image
From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world’s prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
Southern Sudanese in Kenya vote for a new country
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: A pastor at a Southern Sudanese church in a refugee camp in Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom
As the newest country in the world celebrates, Becky Palmstrom travels to Kenya to hear the prayers and songs of the refugees waiting to return to ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
A Drum Is Always With Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Piece image
In Portland, a small community exists around the public performance of Middle Eastern music and dance. Portland is also home to an Iraqi community ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 3
Afghanistan's Other War
From: Vermont Public
Caption: An Afghanistan National Police trainee., Credit: Steve Zind
A half-hour documentary that examines the challenging counter-insurgency mission of the National Guard and how the Guard is training the Afghan Pol...

Bought by WLPR , WGBH Radio Boston, KSFR, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Shovelling the Rain Away
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Award Winning Radio Programs
Piece image
The image of old men shovelling rain off the roads in Afghanistan sets up a grim picture of the frustration of Afghans who sincerely want to make t...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: 14:30
C4 Explosion
From: Robin Amer
Piece image
Chris, a veteran of the first Iraq War, tells the story of the time he saw 2500 lbs of C4 explode.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1