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The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Stanton

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Gates

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keire Johnson

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Theodore Hall

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tio Hardiman

Van Jones navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge builder” during the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Van Jones

The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil Barofsky

Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their unusual and idyllic love story is threatened by a family feud that...

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Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Muhammad Ali

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Allen Iverson

Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese student, comes to the U.S. to study. In her detailed and beautiful diaries, the aspiring young scientist and...

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In a time when the world needs greater cross-cultural understanding, WUHAN WUHAN is an invaluable depiction of a metropolis joining together to...

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In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve James

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

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The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At...

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Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into...

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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...

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A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes...

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Takes audiences behind the scenes of the new golden age of children’s picture books —a time when all children can see characters who look...

Genre: Family

Cast: Christian Robinson

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stepin Fetchit