Film and Documentaries

Film and Documentaries

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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...