1964, Autumn in Chicago. This was my 4th film, shot while waiting to go to prison for refusing to serve in the US military. Silent. B&W. I think it captures the sense of depression, of loneliness within the city. Looking back it seems almost archaic, Chicago as some kind of East Bloc country in Soviet times.

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Mike Leonard tells the inside story of how the west Loop’s St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, know...

The colorful stories of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants who lived the history and ex...

On Chicago's South and West sides, the scourge of guns and gangs is destroying countless lives. Taki...

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Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Amer...

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

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are center-stage on Ten Days Out...Blues From...

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

“17 Seconds” provides an all-access pass inside the Blackhawks locker room party in Boston and the a...
The story of Catholic iconoclast Michael Pfleger who made it his mission to transform the drug ravag...

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...

Created from public television's popular Over series, this is a tour unlike any other! Fly above lan...

2006 was the Bears' best season in 21 years, as they ended the regular season just one win short of ...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...

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Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...