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Audio Documentaries

The APM Reports documentary unit, formerly American RadioWorks, produces programs about education, history, justice and more.

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July 13, 2003

Korea: The Unfinished War

Examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century.

June 13, 2003

Investigating Sierra Leone

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor faces international war crimes charges arising from one of Africa's most brutal civil wars. American RadioWorks followed investigators as they built their case against Taylor.

March 13, 2003

Hard Time

What impact has America's 30-year War on Crime had on communities and families?

October 13, 2002

Gunrunners

Small arms pass from war zone to war zone through a global network of arms traffickers. This is a story about just one part of the illegal arms pipeline.

September 13, 2002

Nature's Revenge

Every year, a chunk of land almost the size of Manhattan turns into open water in Louisiana, threatening the state's economy as well as vital American industries like seafood, oil and gas.

September 13, 2002

Days of Infamy

Days of Infamy compares recordings of ordinary Americans reacting to Pearl Harbor and September 11.

August 13, 2002

New York Works

Jobs that are slowly disappearing in New York City and the people that keep them alive.

August 13, 2002

Deadly Decisions

How do jurors decide who should live and who should die?

July 13, 2002

Justice on Trial

From the trials of Nazis at Nuremberg to the prosecution of war criminals in the former Yugoslavia, to people's courts in Rwanda -- how effective is the machinery of international justice?

June 13, 2002

Kay Fulton's Diary

The intimate diary of a woman who loses her brother to terrorism.

June 13, 2002

Fast Food and Animal Rights

An unlikely corporation -- McDonald's -- has taken the lead in the campaign for animal welfare.

April 13, 2002

Corrections, Inc.

How corporations, prison guard unions, and police agencies help to shape who gets locked up and for how long.

March 13, 2002

Who Bought the Farm?

Is there still a place in America for a competitive and independent family farm? And is the use of popular antibiotics on livestock leading us toward a public health crisis?

February 13, 2002

The Promise of Justice

Examining the machinery and insidious legacy of war crimes, and the struggle for justice in societies convulsed by mass violence.

December 13, 2001

Roots of Resentment

The United States inspires deep and conflicting emotions in other parts of the world. Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, America has been forced to pay closer attention.

November 13, 2001

Remembering Jim Crow

For much of the 20th century, African Americans endured a legal system in the American South that was calculated to segregate and humiliate them.

November 13, 2001

With This Ring

Follow the international diamond trail from the buckets of child miners in war-torn Western Africa to America's jewelry counters.

October 1, 2001

Burning the Evidence

During the war in Kosovo in 1999, war-crimes investigators suspected that Serbian forces were hiding evidence of atrocities by removing bodies of murdered Albanians from graves and execution sites. But until now, no one could say precisely what happened to many of these bodies. This is the story of a secret and grisly operation by Serbian security forces to destroy evidence of possible war crimes in an industrial furnace in northern Kosovo.

August 13, 2001

A Russian Journey

Follow Russian writer Aleksandr Radishchev's 200-year-old footsteps from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and discover the soul of a people and the character of a nation.

June 13, 2001

The Global Politics of Food

The global economy is changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested.

May 13, 2001

America's Drug War

After 30 years America's War on drugs costs U.S. taxpayers $40 billion a year with no victory in sight. Combatants from both sides of the drug war shed light on the U.S. government's fight against one of the world's most profitable industries.

February 13, 2001

Oh Freedom Over Me

In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi for a peaceful assault on racism. It came to be known as Freedom Summer, one of the most remarkable chapters in the Civil Rights Movement.

February 13, 2001

Radio Fights Jim Crow

During the World-War-II years a series of groundbreaking radio programs tried to mend the deep racial and ethnic divisions that threatened America.

August 13, 2000

Nicaragua 'Free Zone'

Global companies fight unions on former Sandinista turf.

July 13, 2000

Jailing the Mentally Ill

Why are so many mentally ill Americans behind bars?

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