Studs Terkel Movies
- 1988
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...
- 1982
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time7.21982HD
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
- 1984
The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker7.51984HD
During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying...
- 1997
The Big One
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The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their...
- 2021
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....
- 1985
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...
- 2006
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...
- 1997
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...
- 2007
Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago
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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...
- 2005
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
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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...
- 2009
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...
- 1992
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...
- 2009
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...
- 1984
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
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This documentary examines the experiences of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, using interviews with survivors more than 50 years later. First, the film se...
- 1972
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...
- 2015
Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...
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An in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Nelson Algren. This never before told compelling lif...
- 1982
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...
- 1992
To Write and Keep Kind
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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...
- 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
- 1997
Anthem
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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...