Kartemquin Films Movies
A collection of movies produced by Kartemquin Films where we put together films that have two or even more than three parts, this could almost be called a series, but since it is an all night film and each film has a complete story, it is definitely not a series. When a film hits theaters, they usually don't know exactly what kind of story it will receive. Viewer opinions are often unpredictable, but they have tremendous power. Some stories are designed to continue, while others get new chapters as people respond positively. With a successful film, we can almost guarantee that we will get more scenes to please the audience. On the other hand, a lot of new things hit theaters in a year. How do you know a newer part of one of your favorites is available? This collection was created by including films produced by Kartemquin Films. All the important movies here, whether it's two or twenty, if you liked the first part of a story, it's time to check out the newest one too!
Hoop Dreams (1994)
7.624 / 10
Documentary
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...
Watch movieMinding the Gap (2018)
7.7 / 10
Documentary
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...
Watch movieLife Itself (2014)
7.5 / 10
Documentary
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...
Watch movieEdith+Eddie (2017)
7.3 / 10
Documentary
Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their unusual and idyllic love story is threatened by a family feud that...
Watch movieThe Interrupters (2011)
6.8 / 10
Documentary
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...
Watch movieA Compassionate Spy (2022)
6.6 / 10
Documentary
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he...
Watch movieAbacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)
6.8 / 10
Documentary
The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by...
Watch movieStevie (2002)
6.9 / 10
Documentary, Drama
In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an...
Watch movieNo Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (2010)
7 / 10
Documentary
Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.
Watch movieThe Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)
7.1 / 10
Documentary
Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into...
Watch movieThe First Step (2023)
0 / 10
Documentary
Van Jones navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge builder” during the Trump...
Watch movieFinding Yingying (2020)
8 / 10
Documentary
Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese student, comes to the U.S. to study. In her detailed and beautiful diaries, the aspiring young scientist and...
Watch movieCooked: Survival by Zip Code (2019)
7.5 / 10
Documentary
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739...
Watch movieInquiring Nuns (1968)
0 / 10
Documentary
Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"
Watch movieRaising Bertie (2017)
9 / 10
Documentary
Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into...
Watch movieEating Up Easter (2019)
6.3 / 10
Documentary
The Rapanui community on Easter Island fights to prevent an environmental collapse due to overwhelming tourism and industrial progress, and and to...
Watch movieUnbroken Glass (2017)
0 / 10
Documentary
Unbroken Glass is a documentary about filmmaker Dinesh Sabu's journey to understand his parents, who died 20 years ago when he was six years old.
Watch movieGrassroots Chicago (1991)
0 / 10
Documentary
A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes...
Watch movieGolub (1988)
7 / 10
Documentary
Leon Golub's massive canvasses depict scenes most of us would prefer not to see - mercenary killings, torture, and death squads. Golub offers not...
Watch movieThumbs Down (1968)
5 / 10
Documentary
In this cinema-verite documentary, a teenage youth group called Thumbs Down decides "to bring Christ to their neighborhood" by holding an anti-war...
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