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Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Brett Morgen

Cast

Dylan Baker, Hank Azaria, Nick Nolte

WooLife chronicles Ronnie Woo's journey from an abusive childhood on the south side of Chicago to his adopted family in Wrigley Field. A young Ronnie becomes inspired after his grandma takes him to a Cub game in 1947 to see Jackie Robinson play. What Ronnie discovers in the bleachers of Wrigley Field is a foster family of Cub fans and ...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Paul Hoffman

Cast

Ronnie Woo Woo, Joe Mantegna, Buck O'Neil

What made more money than the entire American movie industry through the 50s and 60s? Pinball. Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon. A product of the mechanical and electrical age, the American invention swept the world and defined cool. Now it is relegated to a nostalgic footnote deserving a better fate. Joining th...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Brett Sullivan

Cast

Roger Sharpe, Rick Stetta, Pat Lawlor

Set within Chicago’s labyrinth of alleyways, Scrappers is a cinéma vérité portrait of Otis and Oscar—two scrap metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks. The film elucidates how globalization, the 2008 financial crisis, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, and widespread scrap metal theft ...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Brian Ashby, Ben Kolak

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the...

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon

Cast

Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr., Kelsey Grammer