When The LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood
Tensions rise on a busy street as news organizations and local residents witness an extremely volatile situation turn into a literal powder keg.
StoryCorps Shorts: Rules of the Road
Raised in New York City, Maritza Bell never learned how to drive. Later, her husband Danny tried to teach her. At StoryCorps, Danny and their daughter, Sydia, fondly recall how a driving lesson gone wrong turned into a legendary family story.
Sol in the Garden
After 16 years of incarceration, Sol is released from prison, when she discovers that coming into her own freedom can be as challenging as living behind bars. Through a community gardening collective of formerly incarcerated horticulturalists in East Oakland, Sol strives to recover her humanity and sense of self.
Between Earth & Sky
Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies "what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself to explore the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her own life.
When It's Good, It's Good
A filmmaker returns to her hometown in West Texas to document the effects of the boom-and-bust nature of the oil industry. An intimate portrait of family, memory, and economy, When It’s Good, It’s Good centers around life in an oil town called Denver City, Texas.
StoryCorps Shorts: Dreamer's Gift
For decades, Dreamer has been generously offering free haircuts to veterans from a trailer stationed in the heart of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Campus. At StoryCorps, Dreamer sits down with his friend, Paul Crowley, to discuss the transformative power of a haircut.
StoryCorps Shorts: Family Harmony
When Gilbert Zermeño dreamed of joining his school band, he pictured himself playing a shiny saxophone. To his dismay, his family—getting by on the $100 a week that his father made working in the nearby cotton fields—couldn’t afford one. At StoryCorps, he shares with his wife, Patricia Powers-Zermeño, how his musical journey began on a bad note, but ended in harmony.
Freshwater
Detroiters experienced an enhanced form of water destruction from massive flooding that destroyed homes, belongings and lives in the summer of 2021. The water rose in streets, alleys, yards and, most devastatingly, in people’s homes, where it submerged possessions and memories, and surfaced emotions many were not prepared to confront.
By Way of Canarsie
A portrait of an oft-neglected community imagining possible futures at odds with the present. Using various formats, these vignettes explore Canarsie’s unique relationship to the water through recreation, brief encounters, and expressive use of analog film, granting an understanding of this predominantly Black neighborhood’s shared desires for recognition and respect.
The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms
A magical-realist window into life with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Combining paintings and live-action footage to reveal the emotional depth of Samuel Geiger's physical world–with his partner, painter Lauryn Welch– while exploring disability, love, and the forms they take within the bodies and spaces we are given.
StoryCorps Shorts: Role Models
Reverend Farrell Duncombe's childhood in Alabama was shaped by his mischievous ways and the role models who kept him in line, including his father and Rosa Parks. At StoryCorps, Rev. Farrell reflects on the people who nurtured him.
StoryCorps Shorts: The Room
Debbie Fisher's father was a Holocaust survivor but, for years, he kept his painful memories of Auschwitz to himself. At StoryCorps, Debbie recounts the moment she convinced him to share his story, unleashing a flood of emotions and long-buried memories.
StoryCorps: The Busboy
A famous photograph taken moments after Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and a teenaged hotel busboy kneels beside him, cradling the Senator’s head. That busboy was Juan Romero. At StoryCorps, Juan remembered the night of the assassination — and how that moment impacted his life.
StoryCorps Shorts: The Echoes of War
Towards the end of World War II, U.S. Army Sergeant Harrison Wright was stationed in a small village in Belgium near the border with Germany. At StoryCorps, he tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about being called upon for a special assignment.
Coming Home
A collective of Palestinian-American dancers living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn use traditional Dabka as a way to connect to their community and homeland.
Some Kind of Intimacy
Director Toby Bull observes the sheep that live on the land where his parents were buried several years ago. An original perspective on bereavement, tackled with humor and tenderness.
All Riders
The subway makes New York City tick, but getting around is a constant battle for disabled New Yorkers.
You Can't Stop Spirit
You Can’t Stop Spirit centers the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition: a group of self-liberated Black women who created an alternative social space where they are encouraged to be free.
Call Me Anytime, I'm Not Leaving the House
Two Ukrainian sisters – one recently emigrated to Brooklyn, the other in war-besieged Odessa – long to be reunited and reminisce about their homeland.
Are You Down?
Highlighting his powerful sculpture practice and beautiful spirit, a portrait of the life and work of Jamaican New Yorker and visual artist, Michael Richards.
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