City So Real (2020)

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Steve James’ fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election, and the tumultuous 2020 summer of COVID-19 and social upheaval following the police killing of George Floyd.

City So Real

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Welcome to chicago

  • 1x2

    Blood sport

  • 1x3

    With all due respect to the candidate

  • 1x4

    If you want to break the machine

  • 1x5

    You gotta make it or you gotta take it

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