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.
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this ...
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.
Actor Glynn Turman makes his Broadway debut at 12 years old in the original production of “A Raisin ...
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two dist...
“The Singer: A Montford Point Marine” tells the story of Henry Charles Johnson, one of the first Afr...
Death By Audio, an underground art and music venue, is forced to close in 2014. The film focuses on ...
A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner ci...
Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the...
A documentary that reveals how a forgotten record by the Incredible Bongo Band helped cement the fou...
In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion co...
First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zul...
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came...
A film about the cultural evolution of the Sydney beach side suburb of Maroubra and the social strug...
The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neo...
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
Fists of Pride follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for t...
A documentary drama addressing the shared tribulations and historical unity between Black and Jewish...