2019

S2.E1 ∙ All the Queen's Horses

Wed, Nov 06, 2019

As city comptroller of Dixon, IL, Rita Crundwell stole $53 million of public funds across 20 years--making her the perpetrator of the largest case of municipal fraud in American history. She used the funds to build one of the nation's leading quarter horse breeding empires, all while forcing staff cuts, police budget slashing, and neglect of public infrastructure. ALL THE QUEEN'S HORSES investigates her crime, her lavish lifestyle and the small town she left in her wake.

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S2.E2 ∙ Stateville Calling

Wed, Jan 29, 2020

Bill Ryan, 84-years-old and with a southern drawl from his Kentucky upbringing, has spent the last several decades befriending and advocating on behalf of a group of men and women incarcerated for life, helping to abolish the death penalty in Illinois, publishing a newspaper written by prisoners, and ceaselessly negotiating with victim's advocates, legislators and lobbyists from both sides of the aisle.

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S2.E3 ∙ BT Lives in the Stitch

Wed, Mar 25, 2020

North Lawndale College Prep is a high school located on the south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood notable more for urban blight than quality education. Then, teacher Dorothea Tobin introduced the BT Lives in the Stitch program, creating a much needed after-school program as well as an avid knitting circle amongst an unlikely group of teens.

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S2.E4 ∙ This Has Been to Space

Wed, Mar 25, 2020

This Has Been to Space follows a group of kids and astrophysicists as they launch a high-altitude balloon-outfitted with cameras, GPS, a Geiger counter, action figures, seeds, and a Twizzler "payload" -and follow it across the country. Once reunited with their supercharged souvenirs, the kids watch their space video: the curvature of the earth, the perilous descent - and everyone gets a bite of the Twizzler.

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S2.E5 ∙ 63 Boycott

Wed, Apr 29, 2020

Back on October 22, 1963, more than 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. '63 Boycott connects this forgotten story of one of the largest Northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around race, education, and youth activism.

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S2.E6 ∙ Sustainable

Wed, May 27, 2020

Sustainable is a film about the land, the people who work it, and what must be done to sustain it for future generations. Amidst the cornfields of central Illinois lives Marty Travis, a seventh-generation farmer who transforms his farmland and helps pioneer the sustainable food movement in Chicago.

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S2.E7 ∙ American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel

Wed, Sep 23, 2020

At what other point in our history has the line between church and state become so tangled and polarizing? American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel challenges what we think we know about the Christian heartland by offering a rare personal glimpse into the contentious and often misunderstood history of religion, race, and politics in America.

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S2.E8 ∙ The Area

Wed, Mar 10, 2021

On Chicago's South Side, one woman's five-year struggle against displacement by a multi-billion dollar freight company exposes a community's strength and fragility.

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S2.E9 ∙ When Billy Broke His Head

Wed, Mar 10, 2021

The film follows journalist Billy Golfus after a traffic accident, when he woke from a coma to find himself head-injured, hemiplegic, and dependent on others. When Billy Broke His Head tells of Golfus' struggle to make a new life for himself in the face of pervasive discrimination and bureaucratic "helping systems."

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S2.E10 ∙ Unbroken Glass

Wed, Mar 10, 2021

When he was six-years-old, Dinesh Das Sabu's parents died. Raised by his older siblings, he had little idea who his parents were or where he came from. Through making Unbroken Glass, he attempts to piece together their story and his own.

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