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Eight Men Out

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...

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The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumph...

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The Dollmaker

During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory...

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The Big One

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...

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Algren

Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrate...

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Studs Terkel's Chicago

This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel tal...

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Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

This 90 minute, 3-act documentary details the rise & fall of Maxwell Street, Chicago's great outdoor...

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Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extr...

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Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago

Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago (2009, 109 min) is a documentary o...

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A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable ho...

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Studs Terkel: Listening to America

For over 60 years, Studs Terkel elevated the voices and experiences of everyday Americans through hi...

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Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union

Harry Bridges: A Man and his Union chronicles the life of one of America's most important and contro...

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Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to docu...

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The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

This documentary examines the experiences of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, using interviews with surv...

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Chicago Blues

Harley Cokeliss's Chicago Blues filmed in 1972 was a remarkable film; remarkable in that it was not ...

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Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...

An in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Ne...

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Working

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing th...

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To Write and Keep Kind

A PBS documentary on the life and work of writer Raymond Carver. It features interviews with his fam...

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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion....

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Anthem

When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borr...

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Ridin' the Dog

The world-famous Greyhound bus is almost as old as the Wild West. It is a symbol of North America, o...

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Corwin

Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Acto...

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Interviews With Interviewers… About Interviewing

Professional interviewers talk about the art of interviewing....

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Halsted Street, USA

This documentary takes the viewer on a journey along Halsted Street, from the southern tip of Illino...

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