PRX - Pieces for Format: Documentary

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

58 results


Six Minutes
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
Piece image
A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Visiting a Prison Nursery
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
What happens when a women gives birth behind bars? Usually those babies are sent home with family members or put into foster care. But some prison...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 14:25
  • Purchases: 4
A Stranger's Smile
From: Andy Mills
Series: THE MEDIA
Piece image
a brief sound portrait of a subway performer.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
Mixing Classics
From: Keliang Jiang
Series: Cultures of Modern Art
Piece image
When people feel classical music and electronic music should be segregated, they already doubt that contemporary music can be the classical music o...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:01
Practicing Awareness
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Phil Nyokai James playing the shakuhachi
Students of the shakuhachi flute learn about music, listening, and presence in their daily lives.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 06:37
Trans-Identites Part 2: Mario's Story
From: Tina Antolini
Series: Trans-Identities: A Community Comes Out in Western New England
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From his earliest memory, Mario knew he wasn't in the right body.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:24
Tree Body: Radio Ephemera submission
From: Alix Blair
Piece image
my submission to Third Coast Festival's public audio challenge

  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 02:46
In Congo We Have Many Churches
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
Piece image
A Congolese perspective on church in America

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Creative Time: 33 Years of Public Art in NYC, Julian LaVerdiere
From: Megan Martin
Piece image
Julian LaVerdiere & The Tribute in Light: an audio stop on a tour of Creative Time's 33 Years of Public Art series

  • Added: Mar 04, 2008
  • Length: 01:41
Teen Suicide (time for a change)
From: Mike Montana
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a peice on teen suicide and how it changes an individual

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Aug 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 10 Racial Profiling and Beyond
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this program we look at racial profiniling in the valley and beyond, historicly and currently.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 2
Hush
From: Kevin T. Allen
Piece image
An acoustic exploration of the "quiet" spaces around industrial Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: 02:12
Gold, Frankenstein and Myrrh: A Six-Year-Old's Christmas Story
From: Erica Heilman
Piece image
From the Saviour's conception to offerings of gold, frankenstein and myrrh, six year old Erin Magill of Moretown, Vermont tells her version of the ...

Bought by KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, KZYX, KZYX, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 12
Tejidos Culturales #7: Who Chained the Road up, y quien es Jack Taylor?
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this program we look at the closing off of a Land Grant easment by Jack Taylor, the decision in this will set precedent for land rights all over...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2006
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Cleo Johnson and Lady
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
Piece image
A game warden and lifelong hunter tells the story of a doe he rescued, and the unusual friendship they shared

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales (prog.2)
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A culturally historic piece looking at the San Luis Valley of Colorado.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Aug 14, 2006
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 1
Part Two: Victoria Brignell
From: Siobhan Mullen / David Lewis
Series: Get On With It
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the second part of the series looks at the media and highlights the life of a BBC radio producer

  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:59
Part three: Anne Strike
From: Siobhan Mullen / David Lewis
Series: Get On With It
Caption: PRX default Piece image
in the third part of our series we look at a disabled model

  • Added: Jul 11, 2006
  • Length: 10:02
Sissies
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stories from boys who are sissies

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWCW


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 2
Four Seconds: Suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge
From: Jake Warga
Piece image
Search for meaning of a friends suicide.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, XRAY.fm, KSJD, WSLR and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2005
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 12
Yesterday and Forever December Special
From: Helen Engelhardt
Piece image
Documentary composition featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - on 17th anniversary

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRPS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 4
"Eat Your Eggs" Grandma and Alzheimer’s
From: Jake Warga
Piece image
A portrait of Grandma and Alzheimer’s http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4948418

Bought by PRX Remix, HCC Radio The Dragon, KXOT Public Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 06, 2005
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 4
Bringing The Work Into You
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Piece image
Mike Luce builds a casket for his deceased mother.

Bought by PRX Remix, WORLDcompass.org, SALTcast Podcast, and American Public Media


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 4
Unquiet Graves
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Piece image
Special essay on living in Flanders

Bought by KMXT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, KMSU, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 11