Chicago Media Project Popular Movie

Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel owner who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially...

genus: Documentary

cast: Gay Talese

Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse and hear from gymnasts.

genus: Documentary

cast: Maggie Nichols

Over seven years, three couples involved in the extreme sport of BASE jumping test the limits of love and life itself. Risking everything for the...

genus: Documentary

cast: Espen Fadnes

The tape-recorded words “erase it” take on new weight in the context of history and war. When the state of Israel was established in...

genus: Documentary

cast: Teddy Katz

Unfolding over the course of one very eventful day in his life, at 17-year-old preacher’s kid Henry's afternoon birthday pool party, the guests...

genus: Drama

cast: Cole Doman

Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare...

genus: Documentary

cast: Abigail Disney

Determined to turn unfathomable tragedy into action, the teenage survivors of Parkland, Florida catalyze a powerful, unprecedented youth movement...

genus: Documentary

cast: X González

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on...

genus: Documentary

cast: Wes Tank

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney...

genus: Documentary

cast: Kris Bowers

Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic...

genus: Documentary

cast: Ruth Litoff

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job....

genus: Documentary

cast: Steve Young

The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.

genus: Documentary

cast: Pharrell Williams

The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to...

genus: Documentary

cast: Paula Dofat

Three Navy SEALs leave their tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with treatment-resistant, unrelenting psychological pain. They find themselves at...

genus: Documentary

cast: Marcus Capone

A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.

genus: Documentary

cast: Abel Acuña

With his signature gospel sound on the Hammond B3, Billy Preston doublehandedly elevated the greatest artists of his time – from the Beatles to...

genus: Documentary

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This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex...

genus: Documentary

cast: Tim Black

Documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

genus: Documentary

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Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored...

genus: Documentary

cast: Assia Boundaoui

Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the...

genus: Documentary

cast: