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  • 1994
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    Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

    7.60 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: William Gates

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  • 2014
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    Life Itself

    Life Itself

    7.50 2014 HD

    The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Stephen Stanton

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  • 2018
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    Minding the Gap

    Minding the Gap

    7.70 2018 HD

    Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Keire Johnson

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  • 2022
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    A Compassionate Spy

    A Compassionate Spy

    6.60 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Theodore Hall

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  • 2017
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    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    6.70 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Neil Barofsky

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  • 2011
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    The Interrupters

    The Interrupters

    6.90 2011 HD

    The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tio Hardiman

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  • 2013
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    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    7.10 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Muhammad Ali

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  • 2023
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    The First Step

    The First Step

    1 2023 HD

    Van Jones navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge builder” during the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Van Jones

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  • 2010
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    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

    7.00 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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Allen Iverson

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  • 2021
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    Wuhan Wuhan

    Wuhan Wuhan

    6.00 2021 HD

    In a time when the world needs greater cross-cultural understanding, WUHAN WUHAN is an invaluable depiction of a metropolis joining together to...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2023
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    Story & Pictures By

    Story & Pictures By

    1 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...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Christian Robinson

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  • 2002
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    Stevie

    Stevie

    6.90 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Steve James

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  • 2019
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    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    7.50 2019 HD

    Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Michelle Landis Dauber

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  • 2017
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    Edith+Eddie

    Edith+Eddie

    7.30 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...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2015
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    City of Trees

    City of Trees

    8.00 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...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 1979
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    U.E. Wells

    U.E. Wells

    8.00 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,...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2020
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    The Dilemma of Desire

    The Dilemma of Desire

    6.50 2020 HD

    The Dilemma of Desire explores the work of four women who are shattering myths and lies that women are being told about their sexual desire and their...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2010
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    Prisoner of Her Past

    Prisoner of Her Past

    10.00 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.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 1974
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    Now We Live on Clifton

    Now We Live on Clifton

    1 1974 HD

    Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2014
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    The Homestretch

    The Homestretch

    7.00 2014 HD

    Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future.

    Genre: Documentary

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