Most Popular Gordon Quinn Trailers
Total trailers found: 44
Finding Yingying Trailer (2020)
13 March 2020
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 teacher is full of optimism, hoping to also be married and a mother someday.
A Very Tricky Balance Trailer (2021)
12 January 2021
In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its evolution.
Higher Goals Trailer (1992)
15 November 1992
An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages young athletes to put their dreams of professional sports in perspective and focus on getting an education.
Edith+Eddie Trailer (2017)
02 March 2017
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 triggers a devastating abuse of the legal guardianship system.
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson Trailer (2010)
13 April 2010
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.
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code Trailer (2019)
12 July 2019
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).
Story & Pictures By Trailer (2023)
07 October 2023
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 like them on the page; a time when creators come from diverse communities and backgrounds; and a time when instead of keeping the hard stuff out of stories for children, we put it in and provide context and counternarrative.
Operation Breadbasket Trailer (1969)
07 July 1969
Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.
Unapologetic Trailer (2020)
20 August 2020
Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Subject Trailer (2023)
03 March 2023
In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen.
For the Left Hand Trailer (2021)
31 July 2021
At age 10, aspiring pianist Norman Malone is paralyzed on his right side after being attacked by his father.
Terra Incognita: Mapping Stem Cell Research Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
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 injuries after his daughter Allison was paralyzed in a skiing accident.
Raising Bertie Trailer (2017)
09 June 2017
Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulthood in Bertie County, a rural African American-led community in Eastern North Carolina.
Represent Trailer (2020)
14 August 2020
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.
Life Itself Trailer (2014)
04 July 2014
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
In the Family Trailer (2008)
01 October 2008
At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer.
Golub Trailer (1988)
05 October 1988
Leon Golub's massive canvasses depict scenes most of us would prefer not to see - mercenary killings, torture, and death squads.
'63 Boycott Trailer (2016)
06 November 2016
On October 22, 1963, more than 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation.
Winnie Wright, Age 11 Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black.
Greener Pastures Trailer (2024)
25 March 2024
Contemplating the future of farming in America through the day-to-day lives of four small, Midwestern, multigenerational family farms over the course of three years.
Minding the Gap Trailer (2018)
17 August 2018
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
What the Fuck are These Red Squares? Trailer (1970)
20 March 1970
Striking students meet at a "Revolutionary Seminar" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of protesting students at Kent and Jackson State Universities.
U.E. Wells Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
U.E. Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago.
Now We Live on Clifton Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood.
Parents Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A parish youth group in a lower middle-class Chicago neighborhood discusses parental authority, what growing up means and the difficulties of communicating with their parents.
Where's I. W. Abel? Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Made by Kartemquin and a rank-and-file steel workers caucus, the film documents the opposition of the rank-and-file to the no-strike agreement between Steelworkers President I.
Anonymous Artists of America Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
While touring the U.S. in a brightly painted school bus, the psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America stops to hold a performance at an alma mater, the University of Chicago.
Thumbs Down Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
In this cinema-verite documentary, a teenage youth group called Thumbs Down decides "to bring Christ to their neighborhood" by holding an anti-war Mass at their conservative Chicago parish.
Prisoner of Her Past Trailer (2010)
12 February 2010
Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding, suddenly believes that she is being hunted again, 60 years later.
The Interrupters Trailer (2011)
29 July 2011
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once caused.
Almost There Trailer (2015)
27 February 2015
A coming-of-(old)-age story about Peter Anton, an elderly "outsider" artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when two filmmakers discover his work and storied past.
Inquiring Nuns Trailer (1968)
01 November 1968
Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"
A Good Man Trailer (2011)
20 April 2011
A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones for two tumultuous years, as he tackles the most ambitious work of his career, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial.
Vietnam Long Time Coming Trailer (1998)
01 October 1998
The last American officials were airlifted out of Vietnam from the embassy roof in Saigon in 1975. Most have never returned.
Unbroken Glass Trailer (2017)
13 February 2017
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.
Golub: Late Works Are the Catastrophes Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
The work and times of American artist, Leon Golub from 1985 to his death in 2004, taking us from images of interrogations and torture to the ironies and dark humor of old-age.
Hum 255 Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
In 1968, striking students at the University of Chicago occupied an administration building. A year later, two expelled young women were asked by their former classmates to talk about the experience as a class project.
5 Girls Trailer (2001)
02 October 2001
For two years, filmmaker Maria Finitzo followed five strong young women between the ages of 13 and 17.
Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Filmmaker Jenny Rohrer explores the growing difference in voting patterns between men and women.
Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to save the plant from becoming the latest victim of anti-union legislation and the globalization of cheap, exploitable labor.
Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
During a 7-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory in 1973-74, volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the tensions and conflicts inherent to labor negotiations.
Marco Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
When the wife of one of the filmmakers decides to give birth without pain medication using the Lamaze method of childbirth - and coached by her own husband - she is confronted with disbelief, superstition and downright hostility.
The New Americans Trailer (2003)
21 November 2003
Four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America.
Home for Life Trailer (1966)
01 June 1966
Depicts the experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged--a man, isolated from the world he knew, and a woman, wrenched from a family setting.
