Bill Etra demonstrates the special effects functions of the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer (1974)

Chic-A-Go-Go Monster Party musical performance by Hoodoo Hoedown of "Graveyard Stroll"

Chic-A-Go-Go Monster Party musical performance by Team Satan!

"Gene Siskel" and "Roger Ebert" (parodies) review the 1871 Chicago fire

Tony Fitzpatrick on the American political system (1992)

Chicago's Keep Cook County Hospital Open rally, 1979: Speech by Dr. Linda Murray

Building the World Trade Center: 1972

Theater marquees and posters on 42nd Street/Times Square in New York City, late 1970s

Star Wars sfx artist John Dykstra on the storytelling possibilities of special effects

John Dykstra demonstrates the "motion control" system used on the Star Wars original trilogy

The Patti Smith Group plays "Because the Night" in 1978

The Patti Smith Group covers Be My Baby in 1978

Doc Rivers talks about growing up playing streetball in Chicago

Chicago Street Basketball Footage, 1990s

Fremont Street at night in Las Vegas, 1980s

Gurlene Hussey's amazing drag performance

Gurlette Hussey's big finale for "Drag Queen Medea"

Two-way Negro Leagues legend Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe on Damon Runyan giving him his nickname

Yvonne Rainer talks about filmmaking and "Lives of Performers"

Joe Dante, Allan Arkush, and Allan Holzman talk about working for Roger Corman in 1981

Wrigley Field lights being installed by helicopter

Ryne Sandberg on what makes Wrigley Field so great

Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello appear, randomly, on Chicago TV in 1990

Maxwell Street Smoke Shop: Chicago, 1984

The Pope Comes to Chicago: 1979

Early interview with comedian Chris Redd about race and comedy

P. Adams Sitney on the avant-garde cinema and poetry in film, 1974

Lefty Dizz and his band perform an ELECTRIFYING song at the Checkerboard Lounge, 1982.

Harry Shearer on Anchormen

Willie Dixon performs "Built for Comfort" at the 1985 Chicago Blues Festival

The 1993 Chicago Blues Festival

Act Up Goes Shopping

Chicken Charlie on Maxwell Street

Chicago Pride Parade: 1976

Civil rights activist Frank S. Emi on the formation of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee

Japanese-American internment survivor and activist Frank S. Emi discusses life at Heart Mountain

Vietnam Veteran to Students: Don’t Be Fooled Into Another War

US Vietnam Veterans on War

Bill Murray 1980s Technology Rant Remastered

Dick Gregory on the 1968 DNC Protests Remastered

ACT-UP Protest: San Fransisco, 1990

Nixon Resignation and Speech, August 8, 1974 Remastered

Lily Tomlin Opens Up About Her Pac Man Addiction 1982: Remastered

Controversy, Censorship, and Protest of Students' Works from the Art Institute of Chicago

Orson Welles' fiery anti-Reagan speech at the March for Disarmament in Central Park, 1982

Club LaRay drag performance: Grace Jones' "Seduction Surrender" and "Slave to the Rhythm"

Muddy Waters: 1982

DJ Steve Dahl at Chicagofest 1982

Harold Washington on attending the integrated Roosevelt University for "The Roosevelt Experiment"

Racist attacks in Harold Washington's 1983 Mayoral Campaign

Harold Washington's fiery speech about fighting against oppression and inequality

Harold Washington's political ads from his campaign for mayor, 1983

Harold Washington talks about his early life in Bronzeville

Voices of Cabrini, documentary about Cabrini Green

Rodney King protests in Washington DC

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter build with Habitat for Humanity

John Belushi takes a TV station hostage in "TVTV: Super Vision"

Samuel Beckett supervising the staging of What Where?, his final play

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin, a staging of Samuel Beckett's play with incarcerated actors

Samuel Beckett's Quad, a TV play performed by the Suzanne Lek Dance Company