Movies
- 1974
Now We Live on Clifton
Now We Live on Clifton01974HD
Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The...
- 2011
A Good Man
A Good Man62011HD
A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones for two tumultuous years, as he tackles the most ambitious work of his career, an...
- 2017
Unbroken Glass
Unbroken Glass02017HD
Unbroken Glass is a documentary about filmmaker Dinesh Sabu's journey to understand his parents, who died 20 years ago when he was six years old.
- 1966
Home for Life
Home for Life01966HD
Depicts the experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged--a man, isolated from the world he knew, and a woman,...
- 2003
The New Americans
The New Americans02003HD
The New Americans follows a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new...
- 1970
Marco
Marco01970HD
Disbelief, shock, hostility and superstition confronted the wife of one of the filmmakers when she decided to give birth without pain medication...
- 1988
Golub
Golub71988HD
Leon Golub's massive canvasses depict scenes most of us would prefer not to see - mercenary killings, torture, and death squads. Golub offers not...
- 1969
Hum 255
Hum 25551969HD
In 1968, striking students at the University of Chicago occupied an administration building. A year later, two expelled young women were asked by...
- 1992
Higher Goals
Higher Goals01992HD
An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...
- 1969
Operation Breadbasket
Operation Breadbasket01969HD
Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.
- 2004
Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes
Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes82004HD
The work and times of American artist, Leon Golub from 1985 to his death in 2004, taking us from images of interrogations and torture to the ironies...
- 1970
What the Fuck are These Red Squares?
What the Fuck are These Red Squares?71970HD
Striking students meet at a "Revolutionary Seminar" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of...
- 2010
Prisoner of Her Past
Prisoner of Her Past102010HD
Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding, suddenly believes that she is being hunted again, 60 years later.
- 2020
Unapologetic
Unapologetic82020HD
Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from...
- 2020
Represent
Represent02020HD
In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.
- 1974
Winnie Wright, Age 11
Winnie Wright, Age 116.51974HD
Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family...
- 1983
Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining
Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining01983HD
In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to...
- 1968
Thumbs Down
Thumbs Down51968HD
In this cinema-verite documentary, a teenage youth group called Thumbs Down decides "to bring Christ to their neighborhood" by holding an anti-war...
- 2021
A Very Tricky Balance
A Very Tricky Balance02021HD
In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its...
- 2016
'63 Boycott
'63 Boycott02016HD
On October 22, 1963, more than 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. Many marched through the city...