Winners
Immerse your ears in the best audio documentaries and storytelling since 2001, the winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
She Sees Your Every Move
While traditional street photography usually catches strangers passing by in a public space, the photographer Michele Iversen has been catching strangers passing by in their own private spaces, without their permission.
- 2012
- 06:33
- Jonathan Mitchell
Living 9/11
A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.
- 2012
- 58:59
- Emily Botein
- Marianne McCune
String
Ever noticed it's the hard decisions that are often the easiest ones to make, and the inconsequential ones that can twist you into a knot?
- 2012
- 20:19
- Natalie Kestecher
What Happened at Dos Erres
In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people.
- 2012
- 21:24
- Brian Reed
- Habiba Nosheen
Teen Contender
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
- 2012
- 15:37
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson
The Red, White, and Blue Bus
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
- 2012
- 03:00
- Luke Eldridge
Glass, Not Glitter
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.
- 2012
- 02:54
- Abby Wendle
Crown the King: Red Takes Black
2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.
- 2012
- 02:32
- Adam Kampe
Red White & Bruised
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Don Floyd looks back on his life of eighty years, after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
- 2012
- 02:57
- Brian Barnhart Jr
- John Musto
The Five Percent Rule
Soldiers smoke more than civilians.
- 2011
- 06:36
- Sally Herships
Patriot Games
Best friends Rich Carlson and Tom Swenor got so fed up with the political process in America that they decided to form their own Tea Party chapter in Petoskey, Michigan.
- 2011
- 34:22
- Ben Calhoun
Finding Emilie
While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.
- 2011
- 19:58
- Jad Abumrad
- Robert Krulwich
- Soren Wheeler
Deportations Before Reform: Anatomy of an Immigration Bust
As lawmakers continued to debate immigration reform in 2010, the Obama administration pushed for a path to citizenship.
- 2011
- 08:56
- Marianne McCune
Heel, Toe, Step Together
Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 years old.
- 2011
- 27:40
- Katie Burningham
Kohn
Most people find hearing their own voices (on voice mails or other recordings) strange, unfamiliar, or even discomforting.
- 2011
- 08:05
- Andy Mills
The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt
Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.
- 2011
- 27:50
- Brendan Baker
- Nick van der Kolk
- Nick Williams
Children of Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah is a hellish place in Accra, Ghana, where children eke out a living on a scrap heap of discarded computers that the West no longer needs.
- 2011
- 52:35
- Jens Jarisch
- Sharon Davis
American Dreamer: Sam's Story
American schools teach students that with hard work, they can realize their dreams. But this isn't the case for everyone.
- 2010
- 44:04
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
Sucked into the Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas
There are some 14,000 people living on the streets of Las Vegas, and Nevada ranks second in the nation in homeless population per capita.
- 2010
- 08:32
- Adam Burke
The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper
British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.
- 2010
- 27:41
- Adam Fowler
The Sleeping Fool
Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.
- 2010
- 10:22
- Sofia Saldanha
The Lonely Funeral
Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. They are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who cut off all social contacts.
- 2010
- 26:55
- Michele Ernsting
Capturing the Brief Life and Death of an Infant
Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes.
- 2010
- 06:15
- Mary Beth Kirchner
This Can Go On Forever
Eighteen years after Carol gave up her son for adoption, she still believed they would meet again.
- 2010
- 10:25
- Shea Shackelford
- Virginia Millington
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman.
- 2010
- 22:59
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark