Film and Documentaries
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Watch video Dreamcatcher
“You got any dreams you wanna catch?” Sundance award winner DREAMCATCHER takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through t...
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Watch video The Lost Story of Emmett Till "The Universal Child"
The brutal murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, and the acquittal of the two white men who killed him, was a catalyst for the Civil R...
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Watch video The Lost Story of Emmett Till "Then and Now"
In “The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then & Now,” the third and final installment of NBC Chicago’s docuseries about Emmett Till, investigative journalis...
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Watch video The Lost Story of Emmett Till "Trial in the Delta"
Trial in the Delta is a reenactment of the actual court proceedings that played out in Sumner, Mississippi in 1955. Actors portraying witnesses for th...
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Watch video Crisis on Federal Street
A documentary hosted by Hodding Carter III that examines the well-intentioned but failed federal assistance programs implemented during the 1960s' "w...
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Watch video DRUG$ The Price We Pay
DRUG$: The Price We Pay – Narrated by Academy Award® Winner J.K. Simmons, a story that unpacks the mystery of modern medicine’s skyrocketing price tag...
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Watch video Folded Map Project Documentary
The Folded Map Project documentary is a great, real example of small steps to understanding how did you end up living there, and how can we get to kno...
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Watch video GRASSROOTS CHICAGO
A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes...
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Watch video Cooked Survival by Zip Code
Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand takes audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster -- in which 739 people died, mostly black an...