Chicago Illinois Movies

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

Seeking quite in the park, a young songwriter runs into three familiar strangers with some bad news.

This little-known Blank gem is a portrait of the Serbian-American communities of Chicago and California, highlighting their history in this country,...

A visit to Chicago, featuring the city's architecture and well-known landmarks.

Julia Reyes, the precocious and strong-willed teenage daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants, dreams of becoming a famous writer far away...

As her 80th birthday is approaching, Vera Klement, an oil painter in Chicago, adamantly starts yet another new figure painting: a portrait of an...

A gangster hires a mysterious rent-a-man for a subtle game of cat-and-mouse in the Las Vegas desert until a future-changing twist ending.

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

American Experience looks at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Vice President Hubert Humphrey won his party's nomination for...

Chicago's Englewood is a neighborhood where death is an everyday reality, but a serial killer on the loose has raised the terror quotient tenfold...

An ecstatic exploration of a Chicago parking garage

Few amateur films with sound were produced in the 1930s and fewer remain extant. A charming artifact that demonstrates the expressive possibilities...

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 regulars of Chicago's Southside Rink show off the style and personality of the place they have called home for generations.

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

A love letter to the first three months of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Filmmaker David Achkar searches for his father, Marof Achkar, who was sent to the notorious Camp Boiro prison in 1969 for treason.

In 1993, Chicago bluesman and Howlin' Wolf protégé James "Tail Dragger" Jones murdered fellow musician "Boston Blackie" during an...

A young gay man struggles to communicate with his stroke-afflicted father, and at the same time, stay true to himself.

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