PRX - Pieces for Topic: War

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

19 results


Cherie's Letters
From: Lori Mortimer
Series: Mementos
Caption: The letters Cherie inherited, Credit: Cherie Louise Turner
Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
Tell Saki - Part II
From: Israel Story
Piece image
In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 47:57
Oly Via Sherkole
From: Robert Smith
Piece image
A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 18:59
A Syrian Man's Life in Fargo
From: Prairie Public
Caption: Mahmoud Toureh at the Fargo Theatre, Credit: Meg Luther Lindholm
Mahmoud Toureh is now 23. He moved to Fargo, North Dakota when he was 12. He talks about his life between two countries, his fears for Syria, and...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 18:52
The Vet's Block
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Piece image
Anthony Mattia came home from Iraq as a highly decorated soldier, but the trauma he experienced in combat is putting his own freedom in jeopardy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
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
Everything Has Collapsed
From: Vaska Trajkovska
Piece image
A documentary exploring the effects of being a refugee on identity and personal relationships.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 51:59
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
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
Freedom: A Cross-Generational Examination of the Costs of War
From: Searsport Speeper
Piece image
Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 33:48
Kentucky and the War
From: Down to Earth Productions
Piece image
A documentary exploring the lives of Kentuckians in combat and on the home-front during World War II.

Bought by WMMT, WEKU, and WKMS


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 56:19
  • Purchases: 3
Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Piece image
Four Vermont soldiers talk about life in German prison camps after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge, and the life-changing effects of this ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRVO Public Media, PRX to iTunes, KUT-HD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 17
MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
Piece image
Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
The Gilchrist Brothers
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
Piece image
Interview with Congressman Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland and his brothers, three of whom served in Vietnam.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Woody's Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
Piece image
Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
RN Documentary: Three Photographs
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
Piece image
War Photographer Thorne Anderson tells the story behind three photos from Iraq which continue to haunt him.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 07, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Voices of Iraqi Americans on War and Peace
From: Miae Kim
Piece image
Three Iraqi Americans share their views on the war in Iraq and solutions for peace.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 26, 2006
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 1
From WWII to Iraq War: U.S Veterans on War and Peace
From: Miae Kim
Piece image
Four U.S. veterans share their views on war. An eighty-three year-old World War II veteran, two Vietnam War veterans, and a Gulf War veteran tell ...

Bought by KZYX, Marfa Public Radio, New England Public Media, and WDNA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2006
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 4
In Honor of Veterans
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Veterans' Day program pays tribute to America's fighting men and women through first-hand accounts of battle, as well as music and poetry that...

Bought by KTNA, KSLU, KVLU, KMSU, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 53:07
  • Purchases: 40