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.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourho...

The story of the legendary Berlin club and its founder, a woman whose life is inextricably interwove...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...

J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...

At 96, Lawrence Herbert reflects on his life, from his Depression-era Brooklyn upbringing to creatin...

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...

The gruesome story of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe in the dark da...

We follow the story of The Thinker bombing at the Cleveland Museum of Art, trying to solve the myste...
Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feat...

A film about the cultural evolution of the Sydney beach side suburb of Maroubra and the social strug...

Belgrade in the 1990s seen through the eyes of Goran Čavajda 'Čavke', the late drummer of Serbian ro...

A look into the 19th century American-Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, and the conflicts between Apach...

Growing up as a Deaf individual in Indonesia, Mufi was taught to speak instead of sign. As an adult,...

A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...