Gordon Quinn

O renomado crítico de cinema e comentarista social Roger Ebert teve uma vida inspiradora e interessante. Life Itself explora seu legado, desde sua ...

04 de jul. de 2014

Três jovens se juntam para conseguirem escapar de suas famílias voláteis e da cidade onde nasceram, localizada em uma parte dos EUA que passa por u...

17 de ago. de 2018

Sempre foram levantadas questões sobre a condenação de Allen Iverson por uma briga em que ele se envolveu com um jovem. O filme te leva de volta a ...

13 de abr. de 2010

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

29 de jul. de 2011

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 th...

02 de mar. de 2017

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 like them...

07 de out. de 2023

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. Th...

01 de jan. de 1974

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 reside...

12 de jul. de 2019

U.E. Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polis...

01 de jan. de 1979

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

07 de jul. de 1969

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...

20 de abr. de 2011

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 ...

13 de mar. de 2020

A coming-of-(old)-age story about Peter Anton, an elderly "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when tw...

27 de fev. de 2015

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

01 de nov. de 1968

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

09 de jun. de 2017

This documentary follows the journey of neurologist Dr. Jack Kessler, who was inspired to apply stem cell research to find a cure for spinal cord i...

01 de jan. de 2007

A parish youth group in a lower middle-class Chicago neighborhood discusses parental authority, what growing up means and the difficulties of commu...

01 de jan. de 1968

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.

14 de ago. de 2020

At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed wi...

01 de out. de 2008

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, wre...

01 de jun. de 1966

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

20 de ago. de 2020

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

15 de nov. de 1992

Contemplating the future of farming in America through the day-to-day lives of four small, Midwestern, multigenerational family farms over the cour...

14 de abr. de 2023

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 s...

01 de jan. de 1974

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

05 de out. de 1988

At age 10, aspiring pianist Norman Malone is paralyzed on his right side after being attacked by his father. Over the next several decades he maste...

31 de jul. de 2021

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

11 de out. de 1970

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...

21 de nov. de 2003

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

06 de nov. de 2016

For two years, filmmaker Maria Finitzo followed five strong young women between the ages of 13 and 17. Unlike the myriad reports, books and "specia...

02 de out. de 2001

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.

13 de fev. de 2017

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

20 de mar. de 1970

The last American officials were airlifted out of Vietnam from the embassy roof in Saigon in 1975. Most have never returned. In 1998, World T.E.A.M...

01 de out. de 1998

Made by Kartemquin and a rank-and-file steel workers caucus, the film documents the opposition of the rank-and-file to the no-strike agreement betw...

01 de jan. de 1975

While touring the U.S. in a brightly painted school bus, the psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America stops to hold a performance a...

01 de jan. de 1970