PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary

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

676 results


Piece image
What would you do if you were headmistress of a school with no water--none for drinking, none for cleaning, none for flushing, none? Here is the st...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 19:41
Caption: PRX default Piece image
No-Fear-Teti of Egypt's Cairollers discusses Women's Roller Derby in post-revolutionary Egypt.

  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 41:06
Piece image
Is playing basketball worth the sacrifices this high school student he has to make?

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: Jacqueline Belton helps Chynna Baker, 18, finish her prom outfit with heels. , Credit: Margaret J. Krauss
This week on What What Why, it's almost prom season and we're examining the event's significance. Love it, hate it, go to it or don’t, but prom is ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:59
Piece image
What conclusions about parenthood will teenagers come to after participating in their AP Psychology class’ flour baby project? Listen as they share...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Herbert addresses the importance of free speech in our country.

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
This podcast is a compilation of the stories of LGBTQI* people who grew up in rural areas of Vermont. This work displays pieces of a larger audio a...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:31
Piece image
Educators and middle school students take a poetic trip from a middle school to Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: Kari in front of the Joe Strummer mural, Niagara Bar, East Village, NYC, Summer 2013
Spending the summer in California while her mother convalesces from a grave illness, a 12 year-old finds herself suddenly alone at a rock concert o...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 17:49
Caption: The members of Catfish Courtesy, circa 2002.
Mindless Chanting is a documentary tracing the DIY history of an obscure and unheard band called Catfish Courtesy.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 36:04
Piece image
Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
Radio Rookies Temitayo Fagbenle and Gemma Weiner spent the past several months talking to dozens of teenagers who smoke weed about where they buy i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Toby and Jackie, Credit: Molly Haley
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
Piece image
Sam Densmore is an artist. He's painted, made shoes, and even built custom bicycle frames. But these days he's making something different, somethin...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John and classmate Taylor play Tony and Maria in West Side Story, part of Riverview School’s 2013 annual play. , Credit: Virginia Sutherland
The students at Riverview School are in most ways no different to teenagers at any other New England boarding school. They play soccer and run cro...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:50
Piece image
When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Marcus the Magician teaches a classic trick to one of his students, Credit: Tobin Low
This story is about Paul Marcus Earle, who for many years had a day job in Pathology, but on nights and weekends became Marcus the Magician.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Jim is a young man who has everything in the world but direction.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 17:10
Piece image
Training to become a professional hockey player doesn't come without a price for this teenager. Will countless hours of practice and perseverance p...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: jazz 88 logo
In the 2012-13 school year, a team of poets and educators helped Minneapolis public school students write poetry reflecting their experiences. The ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
What is it like to be homeless in the city that never sleeps? Reporter Kristie Brigandi takes us to lower Manhattan, and introduces us to some of t...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 09:17
Piece image
Why would students at ivy league universities choose to be part of the military Reserve Officer Training Program (ROTC)? Listen to find out how and...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
This one-hour documentary takes an intimate look at the high school dropout crisis through the lives of three young people from California's Centra...

Bought by KALW, WITF, KZYX, WSKG, KALW and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 7
Piece image
Follow Rachel as she progressively interviews kids ages 5-18 and asks them a simple, yet thought-provoking question. This is the first of four epis...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:16