Studs Terkel

In the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. ...

This 90 minute, 3-act documentary details the rise & fall of Maxwell Street, Chicago’s great outdoor market, the birthplace of the ...

On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film ...

When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the ...

Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson’s extraordinary life – from her humble ...

The world-famous Greyhound bus is almost as old as the Wild West. It is a symbol of North America, of progress, and of nostalgia. Reporter Studs ...

This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the ...

This documentary examines the experiences of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, using interviews with survivors more than 50 years later. First, the ...

This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker’s viewpoint–showing that he or she is anything but ...

Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.