Chicago at the Crossroad

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 19...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they wer...

An investigative documentary that focuses on political activities in the 47th Ward of Chicago and on the relationship between party politics and the p...

A portrait of the Chicago Near-North nightlife scene in the mid-1960s, centering around the struggles and romantic desires of an African American sing...

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family stru...

This full-length documentary from the Challenge for Change program addresses housing issues affecting Montreal in the mid-1970s. As the city is restor...

A faith-based action movie about a woman who faces a choice between her abusive, drug-dealing husband and her unborn baby on the way. Her world is ful...

Amid record police shootings in Utah, an investigation into the use of deadly force in the state with Frontline's local journalism partner The Salt La...

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank...

Can flipping through the channels change your life? For Karen, a former prosecutor living in Chicago, her world changed forever when she accidentally...

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the membe...

A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi’s may use language, symbols, and religious connotation in order to come to power. It raises quest...