Kartemquin Films
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Prisoner of Her Past
The haunting story of a secret childhood trauma resurfaces, sixty years later, to unravel the life of Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich. The film follows her son, Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich, as he journeys across the United States and Eastern Europe to uncover why...Watch Movie
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Now We Live on Clifton
Ten-year-old Pam Taylor and her twelve-year-old brother Scott are followed around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The kids worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood they grew up in by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University.Watch Movie
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Winnie Wright, Age 11
Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family struggles with racism, inflation and a threatened strike, as Winnie learns what it means to grow up white, working class and female.Watch Movie
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Chicago Maternity Center Story
For more than seventy-five years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. This film interweaves the history of the center with the stories of a young woman about to have her first baby and the center's fight to stay open in the face of...Watch Movie
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Sacred Transformations
Tattoos are forever: to celebrate a milestone, to mourn a loss, as a declaration of undying love and sometimes as a reminder of some poor judgment after a late night drinking or on vacation. SACRED TRANSFORMATIONS is the story of Eric Dean Spruth as he helps people to...Watch Movie
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Hum 255
In 1968, striking students at the University of Chicago occupied an administration building. A year later, two expelled young women were asked by their former classmates to talk about the experience as a class project. The women confront the students about their convictions and how far they are...Watch Movie
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UE/Wells
An organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago is followed in UE/ WELLS. The multiethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African-American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race as a wedge to divide them.Watch Movie
