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.

Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage a...

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone – the groundbreaking band led by the...

In the midst of a catastrophic steel industry collapse, a remarkable grassroots community effort lea...

Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett shows us in this groundbreaking documentary a new face of ...

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: ...

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the ...

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

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

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

SOUND OF THE SOUL is a compelling portrait of an Arab country where Muslims, Christians, and Jews ha...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...

This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA com...

During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to buil...

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in ...

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, J...

Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives...
Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bring...