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Long Gone Summer

An examination of the 1998 MLB season and the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The two sluggers' race to hit the most home runs, lat

2020

Song of Khartoum

Gubara was proud of the first color film in African cinema, which attempts to give an African response to the city symphony genre by capturing dispara

1955

Chicago, Grande Roue

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

1896

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads

Kenny Wayne Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are center-stage on Ten Days Out...Blues From The Backroads. The guitar-slinger is featured wit

2006

What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun

What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun," the 2-disc DVD/CD focuses on the band's history and the development of their musi

2007

Out of the Loop

A feature-length documentary on the 1990s Chicago rock scene.

1997

Nightsong

A portrait of the Chicago Near-North nightlife scene in the mid-1960s, centering around the struggles and romantic desires of an African American sing

1964

Irish Chicago

The colorful stories of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants who lived the history and exemplify the repeated cycle of the outsider becomin

2009

Old St. Patrick's Church: Chicago Renaissance Story

Mike Leonard tells the inside story of how the west Loop’s St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, known to residents as Old St. Pat's, transformed itsel

2013

From Jack to Juke

Currently all the rage with hipsters worldwide, Chicago Juke music has roots that run deep. The film chronicles the birth and evolution of a genre ove

2013

¿Que Haces Aqui? A Documentary About Karen

Can flipping through the channels change your life? For Karen, a former prosecutor living in Chicago, her world changed forever when she accidentally

2021

Hoop Dreams

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High Schoo

1994

The Janes

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the membe

2022

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underwo

2009

One More Time with Feeling

Documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.

2016

Life After People

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life, an

2008

Man with a Movie Camera

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

1929

On the Rink

The regulars of Chicago's Southside Rink show off the style and personality of the place they have called home for generations.

2018

'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

Through never-been-seen-before footage and fascinating interviews with key members of the 1985 Chicago Bears -- Mike Ditka, Jim McMahon, Mike Singleta

2016

Sickened No More: Documenting the Life and Death of Weekend Nachos

In 2004 a group of friends took the stage at a small coffee house in Dekalb Illinois with the sole purpose of pissing off everyone. Surprisingly, enou

2017