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News + Events
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BlogStand with us in safeguarding history
December 9, 2025What an unprecedented year it has been. On the streets of Chicago, as well as other cities, innocent people have been terrorized by federal forces. Cultural institutions around the country...
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PAST EVENTVirtual Talks with Video Activists: “HSA Strike ’75”
Dec 18, 2025, 7:00 pm CT @ Virtual EventA virtual screening and discussion of the documentary HSA Strike '75, with director Judy Hoffman and doctor/activist Howard Ehrman.
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BlogJohn Lewis remembers Freedom Summer in “Mississippi, America”
November 25, 2025In this extraordinary, newly digitized clip from an interview shot for Judith McCray's documentary "Mississippi, America," John Lewis shares his memories of Freedom Summer, the voting rights campaign at the...
Recent Videos
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Pick Up Your Feet: The Double Dutch Show
1981, 29 min.A sweet, interesting, and enjoyable documentary about a double dutch championship for junior high age kids in New York. The tape featured mainly local kids from Manhattan and the boroughs,...
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Burmese Guerrilla Training
1989, 5 min.At Thy Baw Bo Pass at the Burma/Thailand border, the Karin Guerrillas are training. For the past forty years they have been involved in a Civil War against Burma's military...
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Keep County Open
1980, 18 min.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...
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Nam June Paik: #1 Video Artist
2006, 9 minTribute to video artist Nam June Paik. Skip Blumberg speaks with Paik's friends, peers, and collaborators as they discuss the artist's life, work, and influence. Interviews are often shown alongside...
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Weekend TV, part 2 of 2
1995, 58 min.Part 2 of the two-hour Weekend TV special, a variety show produced by independent videomakers featuring everyday people, mainly Chicagoans.
