Kartemquin Films Movies
- 2014
Life Itself
Life Itself7.5152014HD
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...
- 2018
Minding the Gap
Minding the Gap7.7232018HD
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...
- 2022
A Compassionate Spy
A Compassionate Spy6.62022HD
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...
- 2010
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson72010HD
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.
- 1994
Hoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams7.6261994HD
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...
- 2023
The First Step
The First Step02023HD
Van Jones navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge builder” during the...
- 2017
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail6.7232017HD
The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by...
- 2013
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
The Trials of Muhammad Ali7.12013HD
Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into...
- 1980
Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local
Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local01980HD
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...
- 2003
The New Americans
The New Americans02003HD
The New Americans follows a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new...
- 2007
Terra Incognita: Mapping Stem Cell Research
Terra Incognita: Mapping Stem Cell Research82007HD
This documentary follows the journey of neurologist Dr. Jack Kessler, who was inspired to apply stem cell research to find a cure for spinal cord...
- 2015
In the Game
In the Game02015HD
Through the stories of a Hispanic girls soccer team at Kelly High School in Chicago, IN THE GAME illustrates the enormous challenges facing...
- 2023
Story & Pictures By
Story & Pictures By02023HD
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...
- 1974
Winnie Wright, Age 11
Winnie Wright, Age 116.51974HD
Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family...
- 1968
Thumbs Down
Thumbs Down51968HD
In this cinema-verite documentary, a teenage youth group called Thumbs Down decides "to bring Christ to their neighborhood" by holding an anti-war...
- 1974
Now We Live on Clifton
Now We Live on Clifton01974HD
Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The...
- 2011
The Interrupters
The Interrupters6.8572011HD
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...
- 2014
Saving Mes Aynak
Saving Mes Aynak72014HD
Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from...
- 2017
Edith+Eddie
Edith+Eddie7.32017HD
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...
- 2019
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code7.52019HD
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in...