Chicago (2002)
Big screen adaptation of the hit stage musical about murderous dames on death row fighting for the limelight.
#chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator (2013)
Documentary about one youngster's social activism as she leads Syrian protests from her US suburban bedroom.
Chicago 10 (2006)
Dramatised reconstruction and archival footage concerning the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago the subsequent “civil unrest” and trials that followed.
Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago (2019)
A documentary that brings to life Barry Gifford’s autobiographical collection The Roy Stories, capturing a childhood in a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Retelling of the conspiracy trial that occurred following protests at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention
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