Redemption: The Johnny Fort Story

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...

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...

7 WONDERS of CHICAGO

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...

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...

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...

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...

Juneteenth-Faith and Freedom

GRASSROOTS CHICAGO

A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WVON 40 Years of Service

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...

THE HISTORY OF BLACK RADIO IN CHICAGO - THE DAWN OF URBAN RADIO WVON WJPC

WVON The Good Ol’ Days of 60s Radio (Chicago 2002)

RUDE - Rudy Ray Moore