To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capote (1924-84) spent five years in Kansas researching the murder of members of the Clutter family and collecting the confidences of its two authors.
Your War (I'm One Of You) chronicles the life and career of Chicago's Tim Kinsella, frontman of ever...
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide af...
For over 60 years, Studs Terkel elevated the voices and experiences of everyday Americans through hi...
Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social jus...
Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD, then worked for decades counseling drug abusers. Dock's soulf...
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (194...
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher w...
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramo...
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Al...
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appoin...
This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps ...
'JFK: Seven Days That Made a President' investigates the seven key days in JFK's life that helped sh...
Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernic...
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicia...
First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover....
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...