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Minnesota State University Collection
New Left, The
The New Left sprang from an affluent America torn by racial conflict and dissent over the Vietnam war. Its target, however, was not right-wing cons...
Chicago Public Library Collection
Game
A South Shore High School student film that is an allegory on the wastefulness of war and the duplicity of those who wage it. Filmmaker Wayne Willi...
Chicago Public Library Collection
Corner, The
A documentary presentation from the point of view of the Vice Lords, a group of boys on Chicago's West Side, a description of their world as they k...
Sunrise Media Collection
Protest: Black Power
Analyzes and defines 'Black power' with descriptive passages of its leading exponents.
Jack Behrend Collection
Feeling All Right
Educational film about syphilis tells the story of Roy, an African American farmer, who learns about syphilis the hard way when he catches the sexu...
Margaret Conneely Collection
A Film About Filmmaking
An International Film Bureau production about a small film crew creating their film from the original idea to editing. Also shows the finished resu...
Film Group Collection
Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March
Documents the protests on Thursday, August 29th at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Comedian/activist Dick Gregory is arrested as he attemp...
Film Group Collection
Cicero March
This short documentary details a civil rights march on September 4, 1966. Robert Lucas led activists through Cicero to protest restrictions in hous...
Chuck Olin Collection
Matter of Opportunity [Cut Version], A
This is an edited version of a sponsored film made for the American Medical Association as part of their larger program to recruit African American...
Chuck Olin Collection
Park Band
A non-narrated documentary short about an African American brass band as they set up and play for an audience in an unnamed Chicago park.
Chuck Olin Collection
Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March
Documents the protests on Thursday, August 29th at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Comedian/activist Dick Gregory is arrested as he attemp...
Chuck Olin Collection
Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March
Documents the protests on Thursday, August 29th at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Comedian/activist Dick Gregory is arrested as he attemp...
Chuck Olin Collection
Matter of Opportunity, A
A sponsored film made for the American Medical Association and National Medical Association as part of their larger program to recruit African Amer...
Chuck Olin Collection
Matter of Opportunity, A
A sponsored film made for the American Medical Association and National Medical Association as part of their larger program to recruit African Amer...
Bill Stamets Collection
Powerful Fun
Footage of Chicago political figures leading up to the 1985, 1986 and 1987 elections.
Bill Stamets Collection
Mayoral Election, 1983
Footage depicting Harold Washington on the campaign trail in 1983, ahead of the runup to the mayoral election. The film shows him being welcomed by...
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