Movies

  • 1974
    Now We Live on Clifton

    Now We Live on Clifton

    Now We Live on Clifton

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    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...

    Now We Live on Clifton
  • 2011
    A Good Man

    A Good Man

    A Good Man

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    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...

    A Good Man
  • 2017
    Unbroken Glass

    Unbroken Glass

    Unbroken Glass

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    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.

    Unbroken Glass
  • 1966
    Home for Life

    Home for Life

    Home for Life

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    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,...

    Home for Life
  • 2003
    The New Americans

    The New Americans

    The New Americans

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    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...

    The New Americans
  • 1970
    Marco

    Marco

    Marco

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    Disbelief, shock, hostility and superstition confronted the wife of one of the filmmakers when she decided to give birth without pain medication...

    Marco
  • 1988
    Golub

    Golub

    Golub

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    Leon Golub's massive canvasses depict scenes most of us would prefer not to see - mercenary killings, torture, and death squads. Golub offers not...

    Golub
  • 1969
    Hum 255

    Hum 255

    Hum 255

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    In 1968, striking students at the University of Chicago occupied an administration building. A year later, two expelled young women were asked by...

    Hum 255
  • 1992
    Higher Goals

    Higher Goals

    Higher Goals

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    An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...

    Higher Goals
  • 1969
    Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket

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    Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.

    Operation Breadbasket
  • 2004
    Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes

    Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes

    Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes

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    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...

    Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes
  • 1970
    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?

    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?

    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?

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    Striking students meet at a "Revolutionary Seminar" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of...

    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?
  • 2010
    Prisoner of Her Past

    Prisoner of Her Past

    Prisoner of Her Past

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    Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding, suddenly believes that she is being hunted again, 60 years later.

    Prisoner of Her Past
  • 2020
    Unapologetic

    Unapologetic

    Unapologetic

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    Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from...

    Unapologetic
  • 2020
    Represent

    Represent

    Represent

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    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.

    Represent
  • 1974
    Winnie Wright, Age 11

    Winnie Wright, Age 11

    Winnie Wright, Age 11

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    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...

    Winnie Wright, Age 11
  • 1983
    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

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    In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to...

    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining
  • 1968
    Thumbs Down

    Thumbs Down

    Thumbs Down

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    In this cinema-verite documentary, a teenage youth group called Thumbs Down decides "to bring Christ to their neighborhood" by holding an anti-war...

    Thumbs Down
  • 2021
    A Very Tricky Balance

    A Very Tricky Balance

    A Very Tricky Balance

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    In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its...

    A Very Tricky Balance
  • 2016
    '63 Boycott

    '63 Boycott

    '63 Boycott

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    On October 22, 1963, more than 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. Many marched through the city...

    '63 Boycott