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'63 Boycott

Connects the massive 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 30 minutes

The Chicago Maternity Center Story

The struggle to keep the Chicago Maternity Center open after 75 years.

Kartemquin Films | 1976 | 60 minutes

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

* New title added January 2023 *

Judith Helfand investigates a tragic 1995 heat wave in which 739 citizens died, most of them poor,elderly, and African American. Behind the shocking headlines she finds, a “slow-motion disaster” fueled by poverty, economics, social isolation, and racism.

Face to Face Media | 2020 | 54 minutes

Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code

From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes

Dreamcatcher

Sundance award winner DREAMCATCHER takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking, laying bare the hidden violence that devastates the lives of the young women involved.

Women Make Movies | 2015 | 98 minutes

The First Rainbow Coalition

In a city determined to keep them apart, they dared to unite.

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 55 minutes

Home For Life

The experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged.

Kartemquin Films | 1966 | 80 minutes

The Homestretch

Three homeless teens in Chicago fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 89 minutes

HSA Hospital Strike '75

A document of the eighteen-day strike by interns and residents at Chicago's only public hospital.

Kartemquin Films | 1975 | 20 minutes

Hum 255

Two women, expelled a year earlier during a student strike at the University of Chicago, confront students about their convictions and how far they are willing to go to defend their values.

Kartemquin Films | 1970 | 28 minutes