The First Rainbow Coalition

Can flipping through the channels change your life? For Karen, a former prosecutor living in Chicago, her world changed forever when she accidentally...

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in...

A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a...

Deconstructing The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour explores the music written for the Magical Mystery Tour TV show, as well as the additional songs...

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the...

A film documenting the life of Richard Aoki, a Japanese-American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.

A portrait of the Chicago Near-North nightlife scene in the mid-1960s, centering around the struggles and romantic desires of an African American...

The colorful stories of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants who lived the history and exemplify the repeated cycle of the outsider...

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

Fists of Freedom examines one of the 20th century’s most memorable moments — the dramatic “Black Power” demonstration of...