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Restrepo
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "The Invisible Threat" (7/9/10): War News Radio reports on the new documentary Restrepo.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:48
The Invisible Threat
From: War News Radio
Caption: An IED exploding next to an American tank in Iraq., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Rush Hour
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From "Gridlock" (6/25/10): War News Radio reports on commuting in Baghdad.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 07:41
National Debt
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Women at the Tulle Lake War Relocation Camp, circa 1942. , Credit: Bob Bobster.
Two survivors of Japanese American internment describe how they went from being seen as model citizens to being seen as the enemy. In the story of ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 9
C4 Explosion
From: Robin Amer
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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
The Rwandan Genocide
From: Arndt Peltner
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In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:39
The Chieftains: San Patricio
From: Joyride Media
Caption: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder, Credit: Judith Burrows
The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Me...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 50
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
I am Become Death
From: andy boyd
Series: Stories that Take Place in Space and End in Death
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ruminations on legacy, death, and imperial policy.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:54
Citizen Synforose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Maine has one of the most diverse immigrant populations of any state in the country. Synforose Rugema came to America as a refugee from the Congo i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 3
Independent Minds: At War in the Pacific
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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A new perspective on the often-overlooked story of the Marines who fought in the brutal Pacific Campaign of World War II.

Bought by KGOU, WVTF, WLPR , KUHF, WVTF and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2009
  • Length: 55:54
  • Purchases: 61
Rethink Afghanistan: Civilian Casualties (Part 4)
From: Brave New Films
Series: Rethink Afghanistan
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Civilian Casualties (Part 4)
The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching, and often a direct result of U.S. foreign policy.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 12:09
Rethink Afghanistan: Security (Part 6)
From: Brave New Films
Series: Rethink Afghanistan
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Security (Part 6)
The war in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood that American civilians will be killed in a future terrorist attack.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 11:14
Rethink Afghanistan: Women of Afghanistan (Part 5)
From: Brave New Films
Series: Rethink Afghanistan
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Women of Afghanistan (Part 5)
Eight years have passed since Laura Bush declared that "because of our recent military gains, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes" in Afg...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 10:51
Afghanistan + Troops = Catastrophe (Part 1 of Rethink Afghanistan)
From: Brave New Films
Series: Rethink Afghanistan
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Troops (Part 1)
President Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This decision raises serious questions about troops, costs, overall mission, and e...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 11:46
Holy Land Tour
From: Jake Warga
Caption: Ramallah, Credit: JW
Never before aired! PRX exclusive! A personal tour through the Holy Land, looking at how the conflict started and what it's like today between Jeru...

Bought by KZYX, Prairie Public, KZYX, KSJD, KZYX and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2009
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 12
Visit to Rwanda
From: Arndt Peltner
Caption: Prison Gitarama, Credit: Peltner
A country in change, that is still hold back by its recent past

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 12:53
Sculpting Agent Orange's Legacy
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: A Vietnamese boy exposed to Agent Orange., Credit: Kirk Torregrossa
A Dartmouth student travels to Vietnam to document in sculpture the legacy of Agent Orange.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
When the Spam hit the fan in Nam
From: Rich Halten
Caption: House in Hue where GI broadcasters made their stand
A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 5
Shell Shocked Traumas
From: Larry Carlson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Shell shocked from the Balkan war, Music Therapist Brian Harris works with children by using music to help transcend the psychological pain associa...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 27:03
Rebel Yell
From: Peter Solomon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.

Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 4
Freedom: A Cross-Generational Examination of the Costs of War
From: Searsport Speeper
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Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 33:48
Kathleen's Machine: World War II At Home
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Kathleen, Then & Now
Short documentary collage of voices recorded in St. Louis during World War II on a Wilcox-Gay Recordio. The Greatest Generation carries on, as reme...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Winston Churchill -- known for powerful prose, undaunted persistence, and uncompromising ideals -- led Britain against all odds, to overcome the Na...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNIN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 15

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