Film and Documentaries
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Watch video Redemption: The Johnny Fort Story
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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 Wayman Tisdale Story
An Emmy Award-Winning documentary celebrating the life and legacy of Wayman Tisdale, a three time basketball All-American, Gold Medal Olympian, former...
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Watch video 7 WONDERS of CHICAGO
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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...
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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 "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 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 Juneteenth-Faith and Freedom
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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 The Secret of Selling to the Negroes
The Secret of Selling the Negro Market is a 1954 film financed by Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Ebony magazine, to encourage advertiser...
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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 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 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 WVON 40 Years of Service
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Watch video WVON Documentary
WVON 50 Years of Impact traces the history of WVON Radio. This short film documents the important role WVON has played in history of Chicago the n...
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Watch video THE HISTORY OF BLACK RADIO IN CHICAGO - THE DAWN OF URBAN RADIO WVON WJPC
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Watch video WVON The Good Ol’ Days of 60s Radio (Chicago 2002)
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Watch video RUDE - Rudy Ray Moore