APM Reports Documentaries
The documentary unit of APM Reports (formerly American RadioWorks) has produced more than 140 programs on topics such as health, history, education and justice.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 188
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2022
The World Turned Upside Down
An extraordinary moment: America in a rare period of price stability.
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 remarka…
My Name Is Iran
In 1927, Iran developed a legal code doing away with gruesome Islamic punishments such as stoning and lashing. That all changed during the Islamic revolution of 1979. NPR Producer Davar Ardalan and c…
The Promise of Justice
Examining the machinery and insidious legacy of war crimes, and the struggle for justice in societies convulsed by mass violence.
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.
Massacre at Cuska
In 1999 Serb death squads attacked the ethnic Albanian village of Cuska and left 41 unarmed civilians dead.
Frances Densmore, Song Catcher
Frances Densmore spent her life gathering cultural artifacts of old Indian ways.
The Positive Life
Teens with HIV face the challenge of preparing for an adulthood they may never reach.