Long Haul: Public Radio Documentaries to Go!
Everyday Americans tell their own stories in narratives and documentaries produced by award-winners Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister. As heard on NPR and public radio stations nationwide.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 92
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Children's Portrait Photographer
Profile of people who work in family portrait studios during the holidays. Produced in 1992.
00:08:02 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Bible Salesman
Former door-to-door Bible salesman Jim "The Rabbit" Baker, featured in the classic 1969 Maysles Brothers film "Salesman," explains the secrets of his now extinct occupation. Produced in 2000.
00:10:14 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Death Row Guards
Prison guards working death row at Alabama's Holman Prison and Louisiana's Angola Prison talk about their work: what they do and how they feel about it. Produced in 1993.
00:16:43 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Coal Miners: Pittston Strike
Vernon Short and Elwood Brannen, former coal miners in Southwest Virginia, talk about their work and recount mine explosions. Produced in 1993.
00:21:30 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Anjelica
A profile of a young gang member in Detroit's Mexicantown neighborhood, who with the help of an after-school program, uses her passion for rap music to express herself and revision her future. Funde…
00:07:05 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Chicago: Life After Steel
When the South Works steel mill shut down in the early 90's, it marked the end of "big steel" in the city of Chicago. A plant that had anchored the steel industry in Chicago, employing as many as 20,…
00:29:54 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Chicago's Lincoln Avenue Motels
Long before the expressways, travelers coming to Chicago from the north or northwest entered the city by way of Lincoln Avenue. Back then, Lincoln Avenue – also known as U.S. Highway 41 – was a major…
00:11:03 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Chicago: Meet Me at Unity Playlot
An urban fable that tells how a once-scruffy park in Chicago' s Logan Square neighborhood fostered a movement that took on an entrenched incumbent Alderman – and Chicago's legendary political machine…
00:15:08 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Chicago: Naloxone, Back From the Dead
In the early 2000s, the Chicago Recovery Alliance, a group that works on the street with intravenous drug users, distributed Naloxone – a drug that's been used for years by paramedics and in hospital…
00:06:23 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Washington, D.C. Riots: Then and Now
The 1968 Washington, D.C. riots and the federal government's response altered the social and political climate of the nation's capitol. This portrait of Washington in 1988 draws from the perspectives…
00:25:53 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Chicago: Maxey's Mansion
Alva Maxey-Boyd defied race covenants, urban renewal bulldozers, and two Mayor Daleys, in a seven-decade battle to get and keep her gorgeous 19th-century mansion – only to be left as the last residen…
00:26:38 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
Chicago: Hog Butchers for the World
A look at the history of Chicago's meatpacking industry and the formation of the Packinghouse Workers Union. Produced in 1993.
Winner: 1995 Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio-TV News Directors Associati…
00:28:23 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
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