Kartemquin Films films

Hoop Dreams

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white...

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Minding the Gap

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

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Life Itself

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.8

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentio...

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American Arab

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Showcasing the diversity of Arabs living in the United States, "American Arab" sparks a frank...

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The Interrupters

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once caused.

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The Trials of Muhammad Ali

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into the spiritually enlightened heavyweight champion Muh...

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