Ryan Coogler’s horror blockbuster Sinners is the story of the Smokestack twins, brothers returning to the Jim Crow south after looking for fortune and freedom in Chicago. The film makes many ...

By hosting screenings, discussions and other social events, the group is building community while amplifying art by filmmakers across the diaspora.

It’s a typical Monday in Chicago Immigration Court, and filmmakers Fatima Omar and Ian Resnick look on as immigrants seeking asylum or residency clutch their documents and exchange worried looks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time in America, Schwinn and bicycles were synonymous, and Chicago was the center of the two-wheeled, pedal-powered ...

Whitney Bradshaw created Outcry as a place for women to stop being silent and start getting real. A new documentary looks at how that works.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Documentaries teach us about the people, places, and social issues we may otherwise never come face-to-face with. And right now, the Gene Siskel Film Center is celebrating the art of ...

A Chicago filmmaker decided to create a classroom in Africa, where he shares his knowledge and insight with wildlife conservationists in Rwanda and Uganda. The images they've captured are wonderful; ...

Collin McCarthy, Producer for the Lisa Dent Show, joins Lisa Dent to discuss his self produced documentary. Before Chicago was a major city, it was a frontier settlement. Collin takes you back in time ...

The minds behind the documentary say the film is meant to motivate a generation to take Black history out of a silo and in to the light. It was the link Kyla Nash has been craving. "The same way you ...

The past four years of the Trump administration have seen Democrats valorize the work of Black organizers, particularly Black women, across the country. But they’ve done so only in the context of ...