Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2019)
• July 12th, 2019 • 1h 19min
Documentary
Overview
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Best of Enemies
Released on: 2015-07-31
Documentary, History
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great p...
Top Ten Natural Disasters
Released on: 2013-09-06
Documentary
National Geographic gets 10 experts to pick the most significant natural disasters ever, adding eyew...
Life After People
Released on: 2008-01-21
Documentary, TV Movie
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...
Pompeii: The New Revelations
Released on: 2020-02-15
Documentary, History
Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...
Chicago 10
Released on: 2008-02-29
Documentary, Animation, History, War
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...
Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead
Released on: 2019-11-24
Documentary
Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.
Hoop Dreams
Released on: 1994-09-12
Documentary
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
Disney: Through the Looking Glass
Released on: 2010-01-11
Documentary
Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...
Kelet
Released on: 2020-01-29
Documentary
Kelet is a twentysomething black trans woman, whose greatest dream is to be on the cover of Vogue ma...
Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami?
Released on: 2013-04-18
Documentary
Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doe...
Cielo Roto
Released on: 2024-06-24
Documentary
In the lush depths of the rainforest, Vilma and Andrés find themselves gripped by an eerie premoniti...
Chi-Town
Released on: 2018-03-11
Documentary
An underdog basketball player from Chicago goes on a meteoric rise to become one of the best college...
Document: A Film About Malojian
Released on: 2016-10-15
Music, Documentary
Featuring legendary recording engineer Steve Albini, 'Document: A film about Malojian' captures the ...
Surviving Cyclones
Released on: 1973-01-01
Documentary
Using film footage shot by the Genevese film director, Fernand Reymond, in Bangladesh in 1972, this ...
The Rescue
Released on: 2021-10-08
Documentary, Drama
The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twel...
Dean's Last Ride
Released on: 2025-04-17
Documentary
A veteran Taxi driver struggles to find passengers in San Francisco and wages a spiritual war agains...
The Young Lords of Lincoln Park
Released on: 2024-11-22
Documentary
"There was a time, from the late 1940s through the 1960s, when the now-upscale Lincoln Park neighbor...
City
Released on: 1964-01-01
Documentary
1964, Autumn in Chicago. This was my 4th film, shot while waiting to go to prison for refusing to se...
Chicago 1968
Released on: 1995-11-13
Documentary, History
American Experience looks at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Vice President...