Studs Terkel Movies

  • 1988
    Eight Men Out

    Eight Men Out

    Eight Men Out

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    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...

    Eight Men Out
  • 1982
    The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

    The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

    The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

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    Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.

    The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
  • 1984
    The Dollmaker

    The Dollmaker

    The Dollmaker

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    During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying...

    The Dollmaker
  • 1997
    The Big One

    The Big One

    The Big One

    6.71997HD

    The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their...

    The Big One
  • 2021
    Algren

    Algren

    Algren

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    Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren....

    Algren
  • 1985
    Studs Terkel's Chicago

    Studs Terkel's Chicago

    Studs Terkel's Chicago

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    This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the voice...

    Studs Terkel's Chicago
  • 2006
    Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

    Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

    Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

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    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...

    Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street
  • 1997
    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

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    Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a s...

    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
  • 2007
    Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago

    Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago

    Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago

    02007HD

    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...

    Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago
  • 2005
    A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

    A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

    A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

    6.52005HD

    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...

    A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
  • 2009
    Studs Terkel: Listening to America

    Studs Terkel: Listening to America

    Studs Terkel: Listening to America

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    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...

    Studs Terkel: Listening to America
  • 1992
    Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union

    Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union

    Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union

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    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...

    Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union
  • 2009
    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

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    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...

    Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
  • 1984
    The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

    The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

    The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

    4.81984HD

    This documentary examines the experiences of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, using interviews with survivors more than 50 years later. First, the film se...

    The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
  • 1972
    Chicago Blues

    Chicago Blues

    Chicago Blues

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    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...

    Chicago Blues
  • 2015
    Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...

    Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...

    Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...

    02015HD

    An in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Nelson Algren. This never before told compelling lif...

    Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...
  • 1982
    Working

    Working

    Working

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    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...

    Working
  • 1992
    To Write and Keep Kind

    To Write and Keep Kind

    To Write and Keep Kind

    01992HD

    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...

    To Write and Keep Kind
  • 2004
    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    7.12004HD

    The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • 1997
    Anthem

    Anthem

    Anthem

    51997HD

    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...

    Anthem