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1994
Hoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams7.60 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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2018
Minding the Gap
Minding the Gap7.70 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
Life Itself
Life Itself7.50 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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2022
A Compassionate Spy
A Compassionate Spy6.60 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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2010
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson7.00 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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2017
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail6.70 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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2002
Stevie
Stevie6.90 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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2023
The First Step
The First Step1 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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2013
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
The Trials of Muhammad Ali7.10 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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2011
The Interrupters
The Interrupters6.90 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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2023
Story & Pictures By
Story & Pictures By1 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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2017
Edith+Eddie
Edith+Eddie7.30 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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2017
Raising Bertie
Raising Bertie9.00 2017 HD
Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into...
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2015
City of Trees
City of Trees8.00 2015 HD
During the Great Recession, joblessness exceeds 20 percent east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. City of Trees follows the intimate stories...
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2020
Finding Yingying
Finding Yingying8.00 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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2019
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code7.50 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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2011
A Good Man
A Good Man6.00 2011 HD
A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones for two tumultuous years, as he tackles the most ambitious work of his career, an...
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1979
U.E. Wells
U.E. Wells8.00 1979 HD
U.E. Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish,...
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2014
The Homestretch
The Homestretch7.00 2014 HD
Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future.
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2010
Prisoner of Her Past
Prisoner of Her Past10.00 2010 HD
Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding, suddenly believes that she is being hunted again, 60 years later.