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War is hell on the holidays; A G-Man home for the holidays takes his fiancee to the Big Apple; A family departs from the Biblical script in a live ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 28:55
A young man discovers his sexuality and is disappointed; Americans traveling in Europe try to escape an odiferous stalker; An unusual cat doesn't r...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 1
When he first came to America, Professor Nicholas Jenkins rented a car and set out on a leisurely drive through the hills of California. But then, ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2012
- Length: 07:58
- Purchases: 2
An adopted son shares a final holiday dinner with the man he calls father; A doting dad carefully screens a suitor of his teenage daughter; Simple ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
An aspiring rollergirl digs deep to qualify for tournament play; An avid backpacker communes with nature in Death Canyon; A wrong turn during a tri...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 1
A young lover sneaks inside a girl's bedroom and narrowly escapes parental discovery; A young woman braces for the worst when she tells her conserv...
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 28:37
Warm and fuzzy anecdotes of growing up on an Indiana farm in the Fifties; A young woman debunks a family ancestry originating in the wrath of Natur...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 28:45
A woman who has come to terms with herself reads embarrassing obscenity-laden entries from her teenage diary; Bloomington's first female firefighte...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A dog with wolf blood reverts to its primordial nature; A troubled young man meets a troubled young woman during their darkest of days; A teenager ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2012
- Length: 29:14
An author tells the tale of her family's embarrassing surname; An accident-prone woman recalls her many unintended demonstrations of slapstick humor.
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 29:14
A basement is saved from flooding by a masticating family; A camper braves the coldest night of the year in a Mongolian circus tent.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 19:54
An existentialist crisis prompts pondering of family roots; If you want become best friends with someone, just hit them with your car; A spiritual ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 28:55
An avid backpacker shares mishaps and marvels encountered while exploring a national park; A vagabond finds the Lone Star State more worrisome than...
- Added: Sep 20, 2012
- Length: 29:08
A collegiate football player aggravates his coach by doing his job too well; A woman orphaned at a young age pays sweet tribute to her stepfather; ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 29:23
Long-forgotten loose ends land a newlywed in the slammer; A mother comes to terms with her offspring's determination to follow an unlikely dream; S...
- Added: Sep 04, 2012
- Length: 29:12
Vivid vignettes from a single mom living on a commune in the Seventies; Alcohol transforms a normally reserved young man into a party animal; An Am...
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 29:35
Dock Ellis is one of the most memorable characters to ever play baseball. He challenged the baseball establishment, but always had impeccable stye.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KMXT, Louisville Public Media, KOSU and more
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 7
Director James Edmondson takes us through the background on one of Shakespeare's best know tragedies.
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 09:57
A silly subterfuge staged by a bored teenager has new relevance for his adult self; A family pondering the whereabouts of a soldier son spots thei...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 28:58
An Air Force radio operator recalls his haphazard training and deployment in WWII; It's love at first sight between a Native American and a poofy d...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 28:30
A story told as a diary entry recalls the life of a six-year-old Jewish kid in post-WWII Canada; Crawdads in Barbie's pool and margarine tub boats ...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 20:38
A real-life "giving tree" offers comfort and continuity to the brokenhearted; A four-year-old shaves his head in solidarity with his cancer-stricke...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 23:58
A college alum reminisces about his bohemian campus lifestyle; An exotic family vacation is the setting for an illegal encounter with a sea mammal;...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 28:33
A young man exploring his sexuality bounces between old flames and new; A student studying abroad is dumbstruck by a frozen wonderland; A youngster...
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 28:26
A bovine interpreter seeks udderly safe shelter from a storm.A man who lost his father to cancer draws strength from a man he never met.A construct...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 28:07
