Studs Terkel Movies
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Eight Men Out
Eight Men OutMOVIE
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...
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The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
The Weavers: Wasn't That a TimeMOVIE
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
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The Dollmaker
The DollmakerMOVIE
During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying...
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The Big One
The Big OneMOVIE
The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their...
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Algren
AlgrenMOVIE
Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren....
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Studs Terkel's Chicago
Studs Terkel's ChicagoMOVIE
This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the voice...
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Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street
Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell StreetMOVIE
This 90 minute, 3-act documentary details the rise & fall of Maxwell Street, Chicago's great outdoor market, the birthplace of the electric blues and...
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Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the GloryMOVIE
Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a s...
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Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago
Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay ChicagoMOVIE
Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago (2009, 109 min) is a documentary on LGBTQ life in Chicago from 1934 to 1974. Moving...
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A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman CorwinMOVIE
On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines...
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Studs Terkel: Listening to America
Studs Terkel: Listening to AmericaMOVIE
For over 60 years, Studs Terkel elevated the voices and experiences of everyday Americans through his skillful interviews on radio, in books and on TV...
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Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union
Harry Bridges: A Man and His UnionMOVIE
Harry Bridges: A Man and his Union chronicles the life of one of America's most important and controversial left-wing labor leader. He headed the Inte...
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Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Soul of a People: Writing America's StoryMOVIE
In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With th...
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The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil WarMOVIE
This documentary examines the experiences of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, using interviews with survivors more than 50 years later. First, the film se...
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Chicago Blues
Chicago BluesMOVIE
Harley Cokeliss's Chicago Blues filmed in 1972 was a remarkable film; remarkable in that it was not just a competent documentary but a film crafted wi...
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Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...
Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...MOVIE
An in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Nelson Algren. This never before told compelling lif...
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Working
WorkingMOVIE
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a s...
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To Write and Keep Kind
To Write and Keep KindMOVIE
A PBS documentary on the life and work of writer Raymond Carver. It features interviews with his family and friends, and provides an insightful look a...
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonMOVIE
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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Anthem
AnthemMOVIE
When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the deeply...