StoryCorps Shorts
Towards the end of World War II, U.S. Army Sergeant Harrison Wright was stationed in a small village in Belgium...
“We mesh together like one.” When George Ju met Angela Rivas, he immediately knew she was the one. Just a...
In 1997, Sharon Adams felt a call. After 30 years away from her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she moved back...
“The door slid aside, and there she stood — the prettiest girl I had ever seen.” In the time it...
In 1997, Les and Scott GrantSmiths’ marriage was on the rocks. They had been together for ten years and were...
Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into enslavement in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She was 7 years old when she...
When Jeffrey Perri was nine years old, his grandfather, Tony Perri, came out to him as gay. At StoryCorps, grandfather...
The difficulties faced by same-sex couples have created far too many stories of unrequited love. Glenda Elliott’s story is one...
In 1997, Darius Clark Monroe was a high school honor student who had never been in serious trouble. But soon...
John Banvard and Jerry Nadeau are military veterans who served in World War II and Vietnam, respectively. John, 100, and...
MJ Seide never thought that she would live a happy, fulfilling life. Then she met her future partner, who at...
Maria Rivas and her teenage daughter, Emily, are preparing for the possibility of Maria returning to El Salvador if she...
In August 2005, Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams and his squad were sent on a rescue mission in Barwanah, Iraq....
Sam Black talks to his wife about his father, an enduring lesson and the power of a look.
Bryan Wilmoth and his seven younger siblings were raised in a strict, religious home. In this StoryCorps Animated Short, he...
On the morning of September 11th, Michael Trinidad called his ex-wife, Monique Ferrer, from the 103rd floor of the World...
When Theresa Burroughs came of voting age, she was ready to cast her ballot — but she had a long...
Since 2010, POV and StoryCorps have brought over 30 animated shorts to PBS and online audiences. Founded by Dave Isay,...
Since 2010, POV and StoryCorps have brought over 30 animated shorts to PBS and online audiences. Founded by Dave Isay,...
Since 2010, POV and StoryCorps have brought over 30 animated shorts to PBS and online audiences. Founded by Dave Isay,...
Short is sweet as POV presents brief documentary encounters — including an Academy Award nominee, a Student Academy Award winner...
A one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers, including: Big Birding Day — David Wilson offers a...
Six weeks is the period in which parents of newborn babies in Poland may decide to give up a child...
Every family has a figure who captures the imagination of future generations of storytellers. For Camaran Henson, that figure is...
Cheraton Love is a liberal, and her father-in-law Jim White is conservative. Cheraton invited Jim for a conversation using the...
Jenn Stanley, a writer, and her father Peter, who works in construction, came to StoryCorps to talk about how politics...
In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as...
Mohammad Ashraf Faridi immigrated from Pakistan to the United States in the 1980s. He settled in New York City, and...
Sanitation workers Angelo Bruno and Eddie Nieves worked together for nearly ten years on the same garbage route in Manhattan’s...
In Part One, Brooklyn natives Danny and Annie Perasa reminisce about their 27-year love affair. Though he may not look...
Wendell Scott was the first African American inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. His son, Frank, remembers what it...
Carl McNair tells the story of his brother Ronald, an African-American kid in the 1950s who set his sights on...
Ramòn “Chunky” Sanchez recounts how the new kid at school became a hero when his teachers could not find a...
John Vigiano Sr. is a retired New York City firefighter whose two sons followed him into service — John Jr....
Caught in a thoughtless act of cruelty, a young man learns a lesson in compassion from his father, a larger-than-life...
Lyle Link felt like a disappointment when he told his father he couldnât follow him into farming. But he found...
Following the federal mandate to integrate schools in the 1950’s, Reverend James Seawood recalls how African Americans were forced out...
StoryCorps’ Military Voices Initiative aims to bridge the gap between veterans and civilians. This initiative provides a platform for post-9/11...
Sue McConnell and Kristyn Weed are best friends and Vietnam-era veterans. Although they didn’t serve in the war together, they...
From the first roll call of the 1964 school year, William Lynn Weaver was targeted by white teachers at the...
Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda grew up on Chicago’s West Side. He is the oldest of four siblings raised by a single...
When Gweneviere Mann lost her short-term memory following surgery to remove a brain tumor, she was forced to navigate life...
In New York, 73-year-old Jackie Miller talks to her adopted son, Scott, revealing something about her early life that sheds...
Panchita Espitia was a formidable woman, not afraid of rattlesnakes underfoot on the Texas ranches of her youth, or of...
Cousins James Ransom and Cherie Johnson recall their inimitable Sunday school teacher, Miss Lizzie Devine. This animated short, set in...
Kay Wang was a strong-willed grandmother who was begrudgingly dragged into a StoryCorps booth by her son and granddaughter. Though...
The groundbreaking public radio project StoryCorps will enter into the world of television for the first time with a series...
Since 2005, StoryCorps and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum have worked to record at least one story to...
Crescenciana “Lola” Tan, originally from the Philippines, came to California to help raise her grandkids. Her daughter Olivia and grandson...
In 2018, at the age of 63, Dee Westenhauser came out as a transgender woman. But growing up in El...
Judge Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas during the ’50s and didn’t care much for high school. One day he...
Ronald Clark's father was a custodian of a branch of the New York Public Library at a time when caretakers,...
Joseph Robertson was an infantryman in the U.S. Army during World War II, and he fought in the Battle of...
The great oral historian Studs Terkel was an inspiration to StoryCorps and he was also an early participant in the...
Blanca Alvarez and her husband risked crossing the border to immigrate to the United States, and then struggled to make...
In January 2007, Rachel P. Salazar and Ruben P. Salazar were living 9,000 miles apart and completely unaware of each...
From the moment Richard Pecorella met Karen Juday, he knew she was the one. They were inseparable until Sept. 11,...
Ellaraino experienced a common teenage reaction when she learned sheâd have to leave Los Angeles to spend the summer in...
Nicholas Petron remembers family dinners at his grandfather’s place and how everything changed when the city made new plans for...
At eight years old, Storm Reyes was already working full time with other migrant farm workers in the fields outside...
Allen Hoe tells the story of a chance encounter with a stranger who knew his son, Army 1st Lt. Nainoa...
In 2005, Specialist Justin Cliburn deployed to Iraq with the Oklahoma Army National Guard. While serving in Baghdad, Justin formed...
Eddie Lanier struggled with alcoholism for over 40 years, until his 28th stint in rehab finally led to sobriety. Homeless...
Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a...
After being drafted in 1969, Tom Geerdes served as an Army medic in the 11th Armored Calvary in Vietnam and Cambodia. ...
During the onset of the Soviet-Afghan war, Ajmal Achekzai and his family fled to the United States to seek asylum. More than 20 years later, Ajmal returns to the place he once called home as a United States Marine.
In the summer of 1946, Hunny Feller and her identical twin sister, Bunny, were waitresses at a hotel. Another set...
In Brooklyn in the late 1950s, Jay McKnight and his friends spent summer evenings outside, singing a cappella. One night,...
Asma Jama was assaulted in a Minnesota Applebee’s for speaking Swahili. The attacker’s sister reached out to Asma to support...
Alex Landau, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter....