Haskell Wexler Movies

  • 2013
    Four Days in Chicago

    Four Days in Chicago

    Four Days in Chicago

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    Oscar-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler returns to his hometown of Chicago to document the Occupy Movement's demonstrations against the 2012 NATO...

    Four Days in Chicago
  • 2008
    A Sense of Wonder

    A Sense of Wonder

    A Sense of Wonder

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    Biography based on Rachel Carson's book, "The Silent Spring."

    A Sense of Wonder
  • 2009
    In the Name of Democracy

    In the Name of Democracy

    In the Name of Democracy

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    The first officer in the United States Army to refuse deployment to Iraq on moral grounds, and attempts to clarify the issues that prompted Lt....

    In the Name of Democracy
  • 2011
    Bringing King to China

    Bringing King to China

    Bringing King to China

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    Bringing King to China is a father's "love letter" to his adult daughter, a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream...

    Bringing King to China
  • 2000
    Bus Rider's Union

    Bus Rider's Union

    Bus Rider's Union

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    A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet...

    Bus Rider's Union
  • 2000
    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

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    Journalist Kevin McKiernan's powerful film takes a close look at the Kurds, compelling and controversial subjects whose identities seem to shift...

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains
  • 2013
    Medium Cool Revisited

    Medium Cool Revisited

    Medium Cool Revisited

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    Haskell Wexler revisits the themes of his previous work "Medium Cool" on the occasion of the Occupy demonstrations in Chicago in 2012.

    Medium Cool Revisited
  • 1953
    The Living City

    The Living City

    The Living City

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    This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification...

    The Living City