Directed by Edet Belzberg • Documentary • With Samantha Power, Benjamin Ferencz, Emmanuel Uwurukundo • 2015 • 121 minutes

With his provocative question, “why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?” Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordin...

Documentary • 1980 • 33 minutes

Taylor Chain I tells the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory during 1973-74. Volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the tensions and conflicts inherent to labor nego...

Documentary • 1983 • 30 minutes

In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to save the plant from becoming the latest victim of anti-union legislation and the globalization of cheap, exploitable l...

Directed by Judy Hoffman • Documentary • 1975 • 20 minutes

Striking workers in one Chicago unemployment compensation office talk about working conditions that led to a walkout in July, 1975. Workers and claimants suggest possible solutions to the problems of understaffing and compulsory overtime...

Documentary • 1975 • 15 minutes

UE/Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race a...

Directed by Martin Lucas • Documentary • 2015 • 56 minutes

HIROSHIMA BOUND is a personal documentary that tracks the construction of America's collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It follows the obscure histories of specific photos and photographers, both...

Directed by Matt Mahurin • Documentary • With Kenny Shopsin • 2004 • 78 minutes

In 2002, an unusual eatery called Shopsin's loses its lease after 32 years. Filmmaker Matt Mahurin goes inside the diner to figure out its gastronomic appeal, and paint a portrait of its colorful owners Kenny and Eve...

Directed by Bennett Miller • Documentary • With Timothy "Speed" Levitch • 1998 • 76 minutes

Sailing the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, Timothy "Speed" Levitch waxes philosophical as the city's most eccentric tour guide. Speed's bombastic and psychedelic poetry is captured in the ...

Directed by Alastair Evans • Documentary • 2022 • 99 minutes

Deep in the jungle of Central Vietnam, lies a magnificent underground kingdom. Hang Son Ðoòng which translates as “mountain river cave”, is located in the Phong Nha-Ke Bàng National Park in Quang Bình Province. It is the largest cave p...

Directed by Javier Tolentino • Documentary • 2020 • 80 minutes

The city’s musicians and poets take us on a musical tour of Iran’s capital in a charming film about a music culture rarely heard of in the West.

Erfan is a poet and musician, and he lives with his parents and their lively parrot. Fr...

Directed by Rudolph Herzog • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes

The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300% of the world's annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. Will the system collapse under its weight?

The film explores the significance of our debt si...

Directed by Jérémie Battaglia • Documentary • 2024 • 52 minutes

Though it was once limited to elite athletes, the use of anabolic steroids has reached endemic proportions among young male bodybuilding and strength training enthusiasts. Daring to tackle the taboos surrounding the concept of male ...

Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland • Documentary • With Gralen Stephon Vereen, Mickey "Bonesaw" Taylor,the Garden State Roller Derby Girls • 2014 • 53 minutes

Branch Brook Park Roller Rink in Newark, New Jersey is one of the few remaining urban rinks of its kind. This concrete structure is nestled ...

Directed by Max Miller • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes

A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.

Directed by Yony Leyser • Documentary • With Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch • 2017 • 80 minutes

Queercore: How To P...

Directed by Antonio Giménez Rico • Documentary • 1983 • 98 minutes

One of the best trans films you’ve likely never heard of, Antonio Giménez-Rico’s landmark 1983 documentary Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul) explores the lives and loves of a group of six transgender women living in Madrid in the...

Directed by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez, Matthieu Lietaert • Documentary • 2022 • 58 minutes

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Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas gover...

Documentary • 1970 • 14 minutes

Striking students meet at a "Revolutionary Seminar" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of protesting students at Kent and Jackson State Universities. They explore their role as artists in a capitalist society an...

Documentary • 1970 • 29 minutes

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 c...

Directed by Mark Kendall • Documentary • 2013 • 71 minutes

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses are sold at auction and depart the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and reconstructed as the brightly-colored camio...

Documentary • 1970 • 9 minutes

While touring the U.S. in a brightly painted school bus, the psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America stop to hold a performance at an alma mater, the University of Chicago. Inspired by LSD, the group once opened for the Grateful Dead and played at ...

Directed by Stefano Obino • Documentary • 2023 • 49 minutes

Iraqi Kurdistan. The last war against ISIS left 1.6 million people in need, half of them under the age of 18. One year after the harsh conflict against ISIS, the scars remain. Yet, life persists, gradually returning to a semblance of no...