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1. The Current War (2017)
PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama, History
The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Oliver Powell, Sophia Ally, Tuppence Middleton
Votes: 30,912
2. Tesla (I) (2020)
PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Eli A. Smith, Josh Hamilton
Votes: 10,500
3. The Devil in the White City
Drama, History, Thriller | Pre-production
An architect works to build up the 1893 World's Fair, while the serial killer H. H. Holmes uses the fair to attract and kill women.
4. BioShock Infinite (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
A man is sent to the flying city of Columbia to find a missing girl. However, upon arrival he discovers that the city, its people, and his objective are all not what they seem.
Director: Ken Levine | Stars: Troy Baker, Courtnee Draper, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Laura Bailey
Votes: 22,100
5. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Passed | 176 min | Drama, Musical
The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan
Votes: 8,980
6. H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer (2004)
Unrated | 64 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Torture chambers, acid vats, greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor, H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors. Follows Holmes' entire life as a criminal mastermind.
Director: John Borowski | Stars: Tony Jay, Ed Bertagnoli, Cary Callison, Willy Laszlo
Votes: 1,914
7. Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,154
8. Murder Hotel (2005 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary
A documentary about H.H. Holmes who was a famed serial killer in the late 1800s. He had a whole murder castle built specifically for that purpose. He spent nearly a decade hiring and firing... See full summary »
Director: David Monaghan | Stars: James Garrett, Joe Kozenczak, David Canter, Brian Williams
Votes: 138
9. Tesla: Master of Lightning (2000 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Biography of electrical inventor and visionary genius Nikola Tesla.
Director: Robert Uth | Stars: Stacy Keach, Elisabeth Noone, Nikola Tesla, Leland I. Anderson
Votes: 1,062
10. Wabash Avenue (1950)
Approved | 92 min | Musical
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position... See full summary »
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Phil Harris, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 344 | Gross: $2.04M
11. The World's Greatest Fair (2004)
116 min | History
A fascinating view of the largest World's Fair in history held in 1904. Hundreds of images, early film footage, and engaging interviews bring to life stories of dog-eating tribes on exhibit... See full summary »
Directors: Scott Huegerich, Bob Miano | Stars: John David, Francis Slay, Ozzie Smith
Votes: 66
12. Little Egypt (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her "suggestive" and "immoral" dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Mark Stevens, Rhonda Fleming, Nancy Guild, Charles Drake
Votes: 59
13. Madness in the White City (2007 TV Movie)
Documentary
Taking the best selling book "Devil in the White City," NGC returns to the Chicago World's Fair to meet America's first serial killer. A look at Daniel Burnham and H.H. Holmes.
Stars: Larry Simon, Erik Larson, Rick Kogan, Christopher Multhauf
Votes: 70
14. EXPO: Magic of the White City (2005 Video)
PG | 116 min | Documentary, History
Narrated by Gene Wilder ("Young Frankenstein", "Blazing Saddles" and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"), "EXPO - Magic of the White City" brings the Chicago World's Fair to life. ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Bussler | Stars: Claire Litton, Gene Wilder
Votes: 207
15. Vintage Chicago: The 1893 Chicago World's Fair (2017)
G | 22 min | Documentary, Short
The 1893 Chicago World's Fair was the most influential world's fair in history. It introduced America and the world to dazzling technologies and ideas. It was the fair that changed the world!
Director: Jonathan Chase Cook
16. The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
Approved | 55 min | Drama
The Middleton family visits the 1939 New York World's Fair and witnesses the advent of the future, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
Director: Robert R. Snody | Stars: Marjorie Lord, Jimmy Lydon, Ruth Lee, Harry Shannon
Votes: 200
17. Westinghouse (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Westinghouse is a feature-length documentary about the life and times of George Westinghouse, his companies, legacy, personality, partnership with Nikola Tesla and conflict with Thomas Edison.
Director: Mark Bussler | Stars: David Cope, Joseph G. Deley, Thomas A. Edison, Carol Lee Espy
Votes: 80
18. Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924); his rapid rise to fame, tragic decline, and the ultimate triumph of his creative spirit.
Director: Mark Richard Smith | Stars: Madolyn Smith Osborne, Mark Richard Smith
Votes: 29
19. The Man Who Dared (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Preston Foster, Zita Johann, Joan Marsh, Irén Biller
Votes: 35
20. Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America (2014)
TV-G | 55 min | Documentary
Olmsted was America's first great landscape architect - even the co-inventor of the term.
Directors: Diane Garey, Lawrence R. Hott
Votes: 29
21. Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2006)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary
The development of the American skyscraper, starting in the late 19th century, in Chicago and then New York, centers on the conflict between architects Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan.
Director: Manfred Kirchheimer | Star: Dylan Baker
Votes: 27 | Gross: $0.01M
22. West of Thunder (2012)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
South Dakota 1899. A mysterious stranger visits a small town on the outskirts of the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and brings with him a terrible resolve.
Directors: Jody Marriott Bar-Lev, Steve Russell | Stars: Dan Davies, Clifford Henry, Corbin Conroy, Steve Garcia
Votes: 42
23. Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special (2021 TV Special)
30 min | Documentary
This special paints a deeply humanizing portrait of a woman who was uncompromising in her quest for justice. Her story is told through interviews with her descendants and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Stars: Steven Cole, Shanesia Davis, Zada Eshun, Anthony Fleming III
24. Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City (2010)
56 min | Documentary
Few individuals have had more impact on the American city than architect and planner Daniel Hudson Burnham. In the midst of late nineteenth century urban disorder, Burnham offered a ... See full summary »
Director: Judith McBrien
Votes: 18
26. Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary
Trained in Paris and Rome, Augustus Saint-Gaudens is considered America's premiere sculptor of the 19th and early 20th centuries. During a career that spanned three decades, Saint-Gaudens created nearly one hundred and fifty works of art.
Director: Paul G. Sanderson III | Star: Victor Garber
27. Making a New American Nutcracker (2017 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
The Joffrey Ballet creates a new version of "The Nutcracker" set in Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Stars: Lee Bey, Neve Campbell, Julian Crouch, Rahm Emanuel
Votes: 15
28. Beneath the White City Lights (2012)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A documentary exploration of the critically acclaimed Chicago-based story ballet The White City: The Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Director: Chris Olsen | Stars: Ann Reinking, Melissa Thodos, Jeremy Blair, Mollie Mock
Votes: 11
29. Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha and Potter Palmer (2013 TV Movie)
26 min | Biography
"Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha and Potter Palmer" tells the epic love story between young socialite Bertha Honoré and Potter Palmer, a self-made man 20 years her senior, whose ... See full summary »
Director: Amelia Dellos
Votes: 12
30.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Longest Beard in the World
(1956)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Mining camp lawyer Barnaby Taylor is asked to run for Congress and he standouts with his 4 foot beard. His fiance Frances wants him clean shaven but his advisers tell him his whiskers will get him elected. Barnaby has a dilemma.
Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Guy Prescott, Patricia Donahue, Carol Coombs, Austin Green
Votes: 26
31.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Chicago: City of the Century: Part 3
(2003)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Directors: Austin Hoyt, Patricia Garcia Rios | Star: David Ogden Stiers
Votes: 43
32.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Annie Oakley
(2006)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Annie Oakley from her birth in mid nineteenth century rural Pennsylvania to her death in 1926... See full summary »
Director: Riva Freifeld | Stars: Laura Linney, Marilyn Spanier, Bob Ader, Scott Klavan
Votes: 100
33.
The West (1996)
Episode:
One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)
(1996)
64 min | Documentary, History, War
Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, Richard White, T.H. Watkins, Marc Reisner
Votes: 80
34.
American Gods (2017–2021)
Episode:
Sister Rising
(2021)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Shadow and Cordelia con Hutchinson and get Demeter released. Laura meets with Salim and Ibis, and Technical Boy is reunited with his past.
Director: Nick Copus | Stars: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Yetide Badaki, Bruce Langley
Votes: 822
35.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
H.H. Holmes
(2008)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
Votes: 49
36.
Restored (2017– )
Episode:
1887 Victorian Mansion
(2021)
Reality-TV
Brett tackles a historic 1887 Victorian home built in Altadena, California, by Andrew McNally of Rand McNally publishing fame. In 1897 a Turkish Room was added to the home with materials ... See full summary »
Star: Brett Waterman
37.
Murderous History (2021– )
Episode:
Chicago's White City Devil
(2021)
History
A serial killer thrives on the dark side of America's desire to build it bigger and better.
Director: Steven Perring | Stars: Paul Durica, Robert Jordan, Rick Kogan, Sam Mitrani
Votes: 17
38.
Loki (2021–2023)
Episode:
1893
(2023)
TV-14 | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Loki and Mobius go on the hunt for everyone's favorite cartoon clock as they try to save the TVA.
Director: Kasra Farahani | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Votes: 12,342
39.
How the States Got Their Shapes (2011–2012)
Episode:
A River Runs Through It
(2011)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
How water has literally shaped the States. The surprising history hidden in the blue, squiggly lines on the map: How the founding fathers might have made a mistake along the Georgia ... See full summary »
Director: David Konschnik | Stars: Brian Unger, Bart Crattie, Harry Geisinger, H.W. Brands
Votes: 47
40.
I Was There (2022– )
Episode:
Killer in the White City
(2022)
20 min | Documentary, History
Theo Wilson travels back in time to 1893 Chicago, finding himself in the lair of America's first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes. But how did Holmes become such a prolific murderer? Theo ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Steinhorst | Stars: Theo Wilson, Gabriele Angieri, Tiffany Cornwell, Rebekah Hasenmueller
Votes: 32
41.
Haunted History (2013– )
Episode:
Murder Castle
(2013)
TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV
The 1893 Chicago World's Fair was a triumph of architecture and technology that offered 27 million amazed visitors a preview of 20th century. But a mere mile down the road from the fair, ... See full summary »
Stars: Jeff Mudgett, Adam Selzer
Votes: 22
42.
Timeless (2016–2018)
Episode:
The World's Columbian Exposition
(2017)
Not Rated | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lucy's situation grows desperate after she's taken captive by Flynn and brought to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In their dogged pursuit of Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus fall into a sinister trap.
Director: Craig Zisk | Stars: Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Paterson Joseph
Votes: 1,565
43.
American Ripper (2017)
Episode:
Black Heart, White City
(2017)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
While investigating Chicago's World Fair of 1893, an unexpected connection to Jack the Ripper is found in the police archives.
Stars: Jeff Mudgett, Amaryllis Fox, Greg Regnier, Lloyd Meyer
Votes: 37