StoryCorps Shorts: Alone Together
Roberto Vargas uses StoryCorps to talk to his wife, Susan, and son about their experience during the pandemic.
The Masses
The Masses portrays three South London neighbors’ devotion to their respective religions: Islam, Christianity and Football.
Redneck Muslim
A Muslim hospital chaplain honors his Southern heritage while challenging white supremacy.
Tungrus
A week in the peculiar lives of a middle-class suburban Mumbai household, which is turned topsy-turvy when the family adopts a chicken as a pet.
Traffic Separating Device
A traffic separating device is installed in the middle of Stockholm. It is designed to keep normal cars away and only let buses pass, but ultimately illustrates how practical solutions can turn into human failures.
Life In Miniature
Kath Holden is an artist of the everyday. Inspired by the world around her, Kath’s creations are whimsical yet keenly observed, and a far cry from the genteel museum pieces that her contemporaries are producing. A proud Yorkshire woman, Kath reflects on her life and art as she carves a place for herself in the precious world of miniatures.
StoryCorps Shorts: Learning to Fly
Growing up on his family farm in South Carolina, Drew Lanham was fascinated by birds, but life took him in a different direction. At StoryCorps, he told his friend, John Lane, how he found his way back.
StoryCorps Shorts: Where I Come From
Barnie Botone was 22 years old when he got his very first job on the railroad. At StoryCorps, he remembered the day he told his grandmother the news.
StoryCorps Shorts: The View From Here
Barb Abelhauser worked in an office for 14 years until one day she quit and decided to become a bridgetender on the Ortega River Bridge in Jacksonville, Florida. She planned to work there for a year. Eight years later she came to StoryCorps to talk about why she stayed.
StoryCorps Shorts: My Aunties
Stefan Lynch was raised by gay parents in the early eighties. He was cared for and loved by a group of adults, largely gay men, who he called his “aunties.” Stefan remembers the succession of AIDS-related illnesses in his family, including the death of his father in ‘91. Even in the face of terrible sickness and loss, his aunties showed him how to survive and care for one another.
StoryCorps Shorts: Double Major
Wil Smith enrolled as a freshman at Bowdoin College at the age of 27 with his infant daughter, Olivia, in tow. As a teenager, Olivia sat down with her dad to hear more about their days as college roommates.
StoryCorps Shorts: A Wonderful Life
Five years after Ken Morganstern was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, he sat down with his daughters, Priya Morganstern and Bhavani Jaroff, to talk about the memories he had left.
StoryCorps Shorts: Leading the Way
John Washington was born blind and with a severe loss of hearing that became more extreme over time. He raised three children with his wife Fannie Ruth, who was also blind and deaf.
¡Chaporazzi!
Outside of El Chapo's Brooklyn trial, his mythology appears in media spectacles and selfies.
Clash
Clash is a short experimental documentary critiquing the lack of diversity in on-screen representation in Britain today.
The Velvet Underground Played At My High School
This animated short recounts the Velvet Underground's first gig—in 1965, in front of a crowd of shocked kids at a suburban New Jersey high school.
StoryCorps Shorts: You're My Line
Asma Jama was assaulted in a Minnesota Applebee’s for speaking Swahili. The attacker’s sister reached out to Asma to support her.
StoryCorps Shorts: Driving Lessons
Muhammad Faridi talks to his father about what it was like to grow up as the son of a NYC cab driver. Though he was once embarrassed to talk about his family, Muhammad now takes pride in his father’s work.
StoryCorps Shorts: A Mother's Promise
Maria Rivas and her teenage daughter, Emily, are preparing for the possibility of Maria returning to El Salvador if she loses her Temporary Protected Status to live and work legally in the U.S. Maria reminds her daughter of the promise she made to her.
StoryCorps Shorts: The Treasures of Mrs. Grady's Library
Judge Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas in the ’50s and didn’t care much for high school. One day he came across a book by author Frank Yerby. The cover piqued his interest, but Olly didn’t want to risk his reputation by letting his friends see him reading. So rather than check out the book, he stole it.He recounts how this book — and a little nudge from two helpful librarians — turned him around.
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