Leaned Back

The story of Catholic iconoclast Michael Pfleger who made it his mission to transform the drug ravaged south side Chicago community surrounding his...

When you listen to The Years, the debut studio recording from Urbanites, you're hearing a band in progress. They wanted to make The Years...

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

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life,...

Musicians and nightclub owners reminisce about the heyday of music and dance places on Chicago's South Side during the 1930s through '50s. Swingers...

"Hat Trick" takes you down to the ice and inside the locker room following the unforgettable Game 6 win against Tampa Bay, which delivered the...

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

Set within Chicago’s labyrinth of alleyways, Scrappers is a cinéma vérité portrait of Otis and Oscar—two scrap metal...

This 1978 documentary classic is an inside look at the old-style Chicago Machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era, where Alderman Vito Marzullo...

Footage of the Chicago fire department in the 1890s.

A "city symphony" film, produced to encourage Photographic Society of America members to attend their 1963 conference in Chicago, City to See is a...

In Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, the Vida/Sida Cacica Pageant brings together members of the Puerto Rican community to celebrate its...