Punch 9 for Harold Washington: Pre and Post Screening Q&A at Doc Films (2-6-2024)
Witness a riveting Q&A Session at the University of Chicago that followed the screening of a new documentary on Mayor Harold Washington.
Witness a riveting Q&A Session at the University of Chicago that followed the screening of a new documentary on Mayor Harold Washington.
A documentary about police brutality in Chicago, focusing on the policy of torture and abuse under Commander Jon Burge and the long and difficult fight to hold him and the Chicago Police Department accountable for their decades of violence towards the city’s Black and Latino populations.
A documentary about the efforts of staff and of community activists to keep Cook County Hospital from being shut down. Cook County Hospital workers rally on October 13, 1979 at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago.
The tenants at 5117 N. Kenmore describe the appalling living conditions of their apartments. A new edit of footage shot in Chicago in 1979.
A brief documentary about the movement for affordable housing in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood and nearby. A new edit of footage shot in Chicago in the 1970s.
An overview of activism undertaken by residents of Chicago’s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods to protest a 19% rate hike from Com-Ed in 1980. A new edit of footage shot in 1980.
See what the nightlife scene in downtown Chicago was like in 1948 – in spectacular technicolor!
“What Trees Do They Plant” is a film produced by the City of Chicago as a response to criticism of the way the Chicago Police Department treated protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Its claim is that the Yippies conducted a deliberate campaign to disrupt the city and harm the police.