Public Housing is Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily conflicts between residents and the bureaucratic machinery to which they are continually subjected. With intimate detail and an abiding dedication to his subject, Wiseman unearths the hidden facets of institutions to find humanity and sites of unexpected beauty.
Your War (I'm One Of You) chronicles the life and career of Chicago's Tim Kinsella, frontman of ever...
1960s Chicago, a baby is kidnapped from a hospital. Fifteen months later, a toddler is abandoned. Co...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
Green Valley was a housing commission estate in western Sydney, much maligned by the media of the da...
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...
30 years in the making, the film Jan Terri: No Rules tells the story of an irrepressible, and often ...
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...
Featuring legendary recording engineer Steve Albini, 'Document: A film about Malojian' captures the ...
What made more money than the entire American movie industry through the 50s and 60s? Pinball. Speci...
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great p...
WooLife chronicles Ronnie Woo's journey from an abusive childhood on the south side of Chicago to hi...
This historic official film from Major League Baseball presents the exciting story of the Chicago Cu...
Live performance from June 29, 1996 in Chicago of Adam Sandler with a live backing band supporting h...
An examination of the 1998 MLB season and the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The...
This little-known Blank gem is a portrait of the Serbian-American communities of Chicago and Califor...
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has ...
An experimental documentary about the street drag racing scene on Chicago’s Near West Side. This is...
Mike Veeck, son of MLB franchise owner Bill Veeck, blows up his father's career. Exiled from the gam...
Chicago comics talk about the trials and tribulations of developing their acts in the Windy City.
Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the...