The America Project Radio Documentary Index

:: Documentary Index ::

An archive of programs created for The America Project, plus a running list of other pieces by producer Alix Spiegel.

2gether (2000)

2gether was a band created to parody the boy bands of the world. But a strange thing happened. Soon, over 300 fan Web sites sprung up; the album hit the charts; Britney Spears asked them to open for her; and the members started taking themselves seriously.

Eighty-One Words (2002)

Sexual deviance, respected psychiatrists, and a man in a Nixon mask. The story of how a closested gay man helped change the American Psychiatric Association's definition of homosexuality.

A Week in Munchkinland (2002)

A week on a cruise ship with four of the original Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz. Oh yeah, and a boat full of the people who worship them.

An Afternoon at Port Authority (2001)

Audio postcards from the Port Authority bus station in New York City.

An Angry Mob (2000)

Three days on the lawn of Elian Gonzalez's Florida home. The internal politics—and emotional rewards—of belonging to a mob.

Backyard Wrestling (2001)

Surburban teenagers in tights hit each other with metal folding chairs. A story of modern youth.

Barbara (1999)

The diary of a woman who nearly killed for her children.

Catalog Father (2001)

How to choose the father of your child from a fourteen-page catalog.

Hitler's Yacht (2002)

In which a group of Jews decide to sail Hitler's yacht into the Miami Harbor and sink it to the bottom of the sea.

Jay's Kids (2001)

The story of blues singer Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his 57 children.

Niagara (1998)

Audio postcards from the brink. Literally.

Pat Buchanan's New Mistriss (2000)

Pat Buchanan might sleep with the Reform Party, but he won't buy her the ring. Travels on the political fringe.

Pimp Anthropology (1999)

The history of five friends who try to hit it big in California.

Pray (1997)

Six-thousand Christians pray through the phone book one name at a time. Spiritual warfare in the modern age. A report from Colorado Springs.

Remember (2002)

In the early 1990's people across America turned to experts in psychology for help ... and many people were told that the source of their problems could be traced to traumatic events they could not even remember, to memories that had to be recovered through special techniques. In the last ten years, this whole approach to psychology has fallen out of favor. So what happened that so many experts came to believe in a treatment that turned out to make many of their patients worse, not better ... and what happened when the patients and therapists figured all this out?

Slave Camp (1999)

A summer program in Indiana that will show you what it was like to be a runaway slave by taking you to the woods in the middle of the night, telling you to run, then hunting you down.

Teenage Republican (2000)

A 16-year-old boy in Pennsylvania raises thousands of dollars for the Bush presidential campaign. A portrait of a young republican.

Urban Explorers (2000)

Exploring the defunct subways and abandoned buildings of New York City with a group of urban adventurers.

Westlake (2000)

The mayor of a small Texas town loses his elected office, then his law practice, the his home, then his town (the town is literally disbanded) after he defies the will of a wealthy land owner: Ross Perot, Jr., son of the former presidential candidate.

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