Flyin' Cut Sleeves (1993)
• February 5th, 1993 • 1h 0min
Documentary
Overview
FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Neighbor by Neighbor: Mobilizing an Invisible Community in Lewiston, Maine
Released on: 2009-01-01
Documentary
In the summer of 2004, the Mayor of Lewiston, Maine announced a plan to develop a four-lane boulevar...
The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War
Released on: 2017-12-13
Documentary, History, War
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
Everything Is Fine
Released on:
Documentary
Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, touts its progressivism and inclusion. It was the first ci...
Mama General
Released on: 1997-01-01
Documentary
A film about poverty in a rich country: father, mother, seven children have made it out of the homel...
American Winter
Released on: 2013-03-18
Documentary
Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath o...
The Outcasts
Released on: 1985-02-07
TV Movie, Documentary
Roaring through the streets in dirty denims and leather, The Outcasts present a menacing appearance ...
Using
Released on: 2007-11-01
Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Zhou Hao examines the complicated relationship between two drug addicts who be...
Gangstresses
Released on: 2000-02-02
Documentary
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
COMPLEXion
Released on: 2023-03-01
Documentary
"COMPLEXion is a documentary that aims to unpack the hegemony of skin color globally and challenge t...
Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
Released on: 2005-04-05
Documentary
One Nation Under A Groove - P-Funk Documentary 2005 Known to its legions of fans simply as P-Funk, ...
Finding the Funk
Released on: 2014-01-31
Documentary, Music
Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting wi...
Medea
Released on: 1973-01-01
Documentary, History
Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, ...
People of the Po Valley
Released on: 1947-09-01
Documentary
A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
Released on: 2025-10-09
Documentary
Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it. Li...
In a Land of Plenty
Released on: 2002-07-12
Documentary
The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it ...
Ghetto - The Secret Life of the City
Released on: 1996-01-01
Documentary
Belgrade in the 1990s seen through the eyes of Goran Čavajda 'Čavke', the late drummer of Serbian ro...
Ghetto Fights 3
Released on: 2006-10-10
Documentary
Ghetto Fights 3 was released Oct 10, 2006 by the Navarre Corporation and presents a brutal glimpse o...
Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
Released on: 2018-10-01
Documentary, Music
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...
Tats Cru: The Mural Kings
Released on: 2006-10-24
Documentary
Determined to hold on to their moniker of "the Mural Kings," world-renowned artists Tats Cru produce...