Kartemquin Films Popular Movie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joanna Rudnick

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

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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Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stepin Fetchit

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

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

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

The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At...

Genre: Documentary

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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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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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Depicts the experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged--a man, isolated from the world he knew, and a woman,...

Genre: Documentary

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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

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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