Since 2003, more than 50,000 people have recorded life stories with their friends and family at StoryCorps recording booths across the country. Archived at the Library of Congress, it is the largest oral history project ever undertaken. StoryCorps’ Peabody Award-winning broadcasts are listened to by millions on public radio and the web, and their book, Listening is An Act of Love, is a New York Times bestseller.

Now, The Rauch Brothers are bringing these stories to life in a series of animated shorts airing on POV, the PBS documentary program. As each animation unfolds, viewers are shown outstanding examples of courage, humor, trials and triumphs demonstrating that it is the individual moments of our lives, and the lives of our neighbors, that define this nation.