Movies and TvShows featuring "university-of-chicago" theme.

Harry Burns and Sally Albright share a long car ride from the University of Chicago to NYC. They discuss whether men and women can be friends without sex getting in the way. Over the years, they meet multiple times, discussing their lives, relationships, and faking an orgasm at a diner. Eventually, they have sex but grow apart. However, at a New Year's Eve party, Harry tells Sally he loves her and they get married.

After the death of her mathematician father, a troubled young woman must decipher her father's mathematical proof, while dealing with her overbearing sister and her own growing mental instability.

The Beginning or the End is a movie that explores the events leading up to the creation of the atomic bomb, focusing on the key figures involved in its development. It highlights the challenges faced by scientists and military personnel, as well as the ethical implications of harnessing such destructive power. The movie also delves into the decision-making process behind the use of the bomb and its impact on the world.

The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World is a documentary that explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, a renowned economist and conservative thinker. The film delves into Sowell's background, including his time at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, as well as his prolific career as an author and columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Through interviews and archival footage, the documentary highlights Sowell's unique perspective on politics, philosophy, and the free market.

Before the creation of the secret cities of Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Hanford, the Manhattan Project hired the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis to refine the first uranium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. For the next two decades, Mallinckrodt continued its classified work for the Atomic Energy Commission during the Cold War. The resulting radioactive waste contaminated numerous locations in the St. Louis area some of which have not been cleaned up 70 years after the end of World War II. Told through the eyes of an overexposed worker, the story expands through a series of interviews that careen down a toxic pathway leading to a fiery terminus at a smoldering, radioactively-contaminated landfill. The First Secret City reveals a forgotten history and its continuing impact on the community in the 21st Century, uncovering past wrongdoing and documenting the renewed struggles to confront the issue.