Kartemquin Films Movies

  • 2018
    Minding the Gap

    Minding the Gap

    Minding the Gap

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    Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

    Minding the Gap
  • 2014
    Life Itself

    Life Itself

    Life Itself

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    The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

    Life Itself
  • 1994
    Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

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    Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

    Hoop Dreams
  • 2022
    A Compassionate Spy

    A Compassionate Spy

    A Compassionate Spy

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    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...

    A Compassionate Spy
  • 2017
    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

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    The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by...

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
  • 2013
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali

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    Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into...

    The Trials of Muhammad Ali
  • 2011
    The Interrupters

    The Interrupters

    The Interrupters

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    The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

    The Interrupters
  • 2010
    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

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    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.

    No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
  • 2017
    Edith+Eddie

    Edith+Eddie

    Edith+Eddie

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    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...

    Edith+Eddie
  • 2019
    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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    Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in...

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
  • 2015
    Almost There

    Almost There

    Almost There

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    A coming-of-(old)-age story about Peter Anton, an elderly "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when two...

    Almost There
  • 2015
    City of Trees

    City of Trees

    City of Trees

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    During the Great Recession, joblessness exceeds 20 percent east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. City of Trees follows the intimate stories...

    City of Trees
  • 2002
    Stevie

    Stevie

    Stevie

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    In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an...

    Stevie
  • 2020
    Finding Yingying

    Finding Yingying

    Finding Yingying

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    Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese student, comes to the U.S. to study. In her detailed and beautiful diaries, the aspiring young scientist and...

    Finding Yingying
  • 2021
    Wuhan Wuhan

    Wuhan Wuhan

    Wuhan Wuhan

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    In a time when the world needs greater cross-cultural understanding, WUHAN WUHAN is an invaluable depiction of a metropolis joining together to...

    Wuhan Wuhan
  • 2014
    The Homestretch

    The Homestretch

    The Homestretch

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    Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future.

    The Homestretch
  • 2023
    Story & Pictures By

    Story & Pictures By

    Story & Pictures By

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    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...

    Story & Pictures By
  • 1980
    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

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    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...

    Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local
  • 1970
    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?

    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?

    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?

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    Striking students meet at a "Revolutionary Seminar" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of...

    What the Fuck are These Red Squares?
  • 2021
    For the Left Hand

    For the Left Hand

    For the Left Hand

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    At age 10, aspiring pianist Norman Malone is paralyzed on his right side after being attacked by his father. Over the next several decades he masters...

    For the Left Hand