Gordon Quinn Movies

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

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

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having...

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.

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

Takes audiences behind the scenes of the new golden age of children’s picture books —a time when all children can see characters who look...

In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.

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...

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...

Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in...

Contemplating the future of farming in America through the day-to-day lives of four small, Midwestern, multigenerational family farms over the course...

Disbelief, shock, hostility and superstition confronted the wife of one of the filmmakers when she decided to give birth without pain medication...

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.

A coming-of-(old)-age story about Peter Anton, an elderly "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when two...

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

This documentary follows the journey of neurologist Dr. Jack Kessler, who was inspired to apply stem cell research to find a cure for spinal cord...

The New Americans follows a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new...

Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family...

An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...