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  • 2018
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    Minding the Gap

    Minding the Gap

    7.70 2018 HD

    Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

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  • 2014
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    Life Itself

    Life Itself

    7.50 2014 HD

    The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

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  • 1994
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    Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

    7.60 1994 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    6.70 2017 HD

    The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by...

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  • 2011
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    The Interrupters

    The Interrupters

    6.90 2011 HD

    The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

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  • 2022
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    A Compassionate Spy

    A Compassionate Spy

    6.60 2022 HD

    Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he...

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  • 2023
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    The First Step

    The First Step

    1 2023 HD

    Van Jones navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge builder” during the...

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  • 2010
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    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

    7.04 2010 HD

    Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

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  • 2013
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    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    7.10 2013 HD

    Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into...

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  • 2019
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    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    7.50 2019 HD

    Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in...

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  • 2017
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    Edith+Eddie

    Edith+Eddie

    7.30 2017 HD

    Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their unusual and idyllic love story is threatened by a family feud that...

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  • 1968
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    Inquiring Nuns

    Inquiring Nuns

    1 1968 HD

    Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

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  • 1983
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    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

    Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

    1 1983 HD

    In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to...

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  • 2021
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    Wuhan Wuhan

    Wuhan Wuhan

    6.00 2021 HD

    In a time when the world needs greater cross-cultural understanding, WUHAN WUHAN is an invaluable depiction of a metropolis joining together to...

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  • 2023
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    Story & Pictures By

    Story & Pictures By

    1 2023 HD

    Takes audiences behind the scenes of the new golden age of children’s picture books —a time when all children can see characters who look...

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  • 1991
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    Grassroots Chicago

    Grassroots Chicago

    1 1991 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

    1 1980 HD

    Taylor Chain I tells the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory during 1973-74. Volatile union meetings and...

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  • 2002
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    Stevie

    Stevie

    6.90 2002 HD

    In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an...

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  • 2010
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    Typeface

    Typeface

    7.00 2010 HD

    The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At...

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  • 2020
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    Finding Yingying

    Finding Yingying

    8.00 2020 HD

    Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese student, comes to the U.S. to study. In her detailed and beautiful diaries, the aspiring young scientist and...

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