Chicago Illinois Movies

  • 1988
    Precious Memories: Strolling 47th Street

    Precious Memories: Strolling 47th Street

    Precious Memories: Strolling 47th Street

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    Musicians and nightclub owners reminisce about the heyday of music and dance places on Chicago's South Side during the 1930s through '50s. Swingers...

    Precious Memories: Strolling 47th Street
  • 2025
    My Christmas Valentine: I Forgot Christmas!

    My Christmas Valentine: I Forgot Christmas!

    My Christmas Valentine: I Forgot Christmas!

    02025HD

    Everyone in the town of Yuletide, Arizona celebrates Christmas year-round. Everyone, that is, except town scrooge Penelope Roche Duplossier. But when...

    My Christmas Valentine: I Forgot Christmas!
  • 2023
    Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters

    Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters

    Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters

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    In 2001, sisters Diamond and Tionda Bradley vanish from their Chicago apartment. Twenty-two years later, Detective Pam Childs gains access to the...

    Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters
  • 2009
    Detroit Mob Confidential

    Detroit Mob Confidential

    Detroit Mob Confidential

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    Detroit Mob Confidential explores the history of Detroit's La Cosa Nostra Family, which, in many ways, is the most successful crime family in the...

    Detroit Mob Confidential
  • 1984
    Rapturous

    Rapturous

    Rapturous

    01984HD

    An ecstatic exploration of a Chicago parking garage

    Rapturous
  • 1995
    Remembering Chicago Again

    Remembering Chicago Again

    Remembering Chicago Again

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    Memories and home movies of numerous Chicagoans bring the 1940s and '50s alive, from early Chicago television to the patriotic spirit of the war...

    Remembering Chicago Again
  • 1999
    The BLVD

    The BLVD

    The BLVD

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    An experimental documentary about the street drag racing scene on Chicago’s Near West Side. This is a rambling, textured film about obsession....

    The BLVD
  • 1981
    Piano Dance

    Piano Dance

    Piano Dance

    01981HD

    "Piano Dance shows the viewer a shadowy piano accompanied by the sound of piano music. The piano is then seen to be a toy, the headdress of a woman...

    Piano Dance
  • 2023
    Designer’s Game

    Designer’s Game

    Designer’s Game

    02023HD

    Designer’s Game is a crime drama short film that follows a young broke graphic designer into the descent of a life of crime working in the deep...

    Designer’s Game
  • 2010
    Soaring Over America

    Soaring Over America

    Soaring Over America

    02010HD

    Created from public television's popular Over series, this is a tour unlike any other! Fly above landscapes and landmarks in Alaska; the Pacific...

    Soaring Over America
  • 2013
    From Jack to Juke

    From Jack to Juke

    From Jack to Juke

    02013HD

    Currently all the rage with hipsters worldwide, Chicago Juke music has roots that run deep. The film chronicles the birth and evolution of a genre...

    From Jack to Juke
  • 1982
    Bible

    Bible

    Bible

    01982HD

    The story of Adam and Eve is told through stop-motion paper cut-outs.

    Bible
  • 1970
    The Story of TMB

    The Story of TMB

    The Story of TMB

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    TMB (The Merry Band of time travelers) made their first appearance in the 2019 book The Mystery of The Patch. In the book, they assisted Captain John...

    The Story of TMB
  • 2012
    Benji

    Benji

    Benji

    7.82012HD

    Documentary about Ben Wilson, a good-natured and beloved teenage basketball phenom from Chicago's South Side whose life was tragically cut short by...

    Benji
  • 2023
    Paper Planes

    Paper Planes

    Paper Planes

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    A woman with agoraphobia and the Airbnb guest across the hall strike up a correspondence that becomes something more for the holidays.

    Paper Planes
  • 1962
    Chicago: The City To See in '63

    Chicago: The City To See in '63

    Chicago: The City To See in '63

    01962HD

    A "city symphony" film, produced to encourage Photographic Society of America members to attend their 1963 conference in Chicago, City to See is a...

    Chicago: The City To See in '63
  • 1916
    The Cliff Dwellers of America

    The Cliff Dwellers of America

    The Cliff Dwellers of America

    01916HD

    The first picture of the new Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel pictures recount Mr. Holmes' motor trip of the summer of 1913 through the more...

    The Cliff Dwellers of America
  • 2022
    STRANGER

    STRANGER

    STRANGER

    02022HD

    STRANGER is a coming-of-age short film that focuses on two neighbors reconciling before one of them goes off to college in Chicago. It is based on a...

    STRANGER
  • 1978
    I Was a Contestant at Mother's Wet T-Shirt Contest

    I Was a Contestant at Mother's Wet T-Shirt Contest

    I Was a Contestant at Mother's Wet T-Shirt Contest

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    A short documentary on wet t-shirt contests at a Chicago bar.

    I Was a Contestant at Mother's Wet T-Shirt Contest
  • 2007
    What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun

    What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun

    What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun

    02007HD

    What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun," the 2-disc DVD/CD focuses on the band's history and the development of their...

    What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun