Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 38 titles with a criteria of Subject is The Industrial Heartland
The role of competitive sports, in this case basketball, in the community, for the coaches, and, most of all, for the players themselves.
Icarus Films | 1982 | 60 minutes
Connects the massive 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 30 minutes
A mayoral race in middle America.
Icarus Films | 1982 | 90 minutes
The struggle to keep the Chicago Maternity Center open after 75 years.
Kartemquin Films | 1976 | 60 minutes
Examines faith working in the lives of a fundamentalist family.
Icarus Films | 1982 | 60 minutes
From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, COOKED reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes
Academy Award-shortlisted for Best Documentary, the film is a vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.
Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 86 minutes
City Hall and grass roots groups in Chicago are working on open space, green buildings and an educated citizenry to create a sustainable city.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 57 minutes
An American entrepreneur struggles to make his pizza business succeed.
Icarus Films | 1982 | 90 minutes
A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, 'in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s.' - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.
Icarus Films | 1970 | 55 minutes
