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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
TMDb: 6.6
120 min

Spike Lee returns to New Orleans five years after Katrina to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
When the Levees Broke

When the Levees Broke

When the Levees Broke
TMDb: 7.7
255 min

Spike Lee’s award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus
IMDb: 6.8
120

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a…

Genre: Drama
She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It
TMDb: 6.9
30 min

Nola Darling struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. A new take on Spike Lee’s film, in 10 episodes.

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
IMDb: 7.4
90

Mike Tyson’s one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career. MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH is a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one…

Genre: Comedy
Passing Strange

Passing Strange

Passing Strange
IMDb: 6.1
135

A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical

Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City
IMDb: 6.7
113

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on…

Kobe Doin’ Work

Kobe Doin’ Work

Kobe Doin’ Work
IMDb: 6.5
83

A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day of the 2008 NBA playoffs.

Genre: Documentary
John Leguizamo: Freak

John Leguizamo: Freak

John Leguizamo: Freak
IMDb: 8.2
90

John Leguizamo’s semi-falsified, one-man stand-up performance as…himself. This is his autobiographical story, about his life growing up, and his journey to try to be accepted by his father. We see…

Bamboozled

Bamboozled

Bamboozled
IMDb: 6.5
136

TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a 21st century minstrel…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It
IMDb: 6.7
84

The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
David Byrne’s American Utopia

David Byrne’s American Utopia

David Byrne’s American Utopia
IMDb: 8.6
105

A filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.

Girl 6

Girl 6

Girl 6
IMDb: 5.1
108

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Genre: Comedy
Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods
IMDb: N/A
154 min

4 African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They’re in the hunt for the stays of their fallen squad chief and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of…

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Genre: Drama, War
BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman
IMDb: 7.6
135 min

Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, effectively manages to infiltrate the native Ku Klux Klan and develop to be the highest of the native chapter.

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School Daze

School Daze

School Daze
IMDb: 6.0
121 min

Fraternity and sorority members clash with different pupils in a historically black school during homecoming weekend.

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Genre: Drama, Music
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 7.9
120 min

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. An area nearby, Buggin’ Out, becomes angry if he sees this the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame displays just…

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Genre: Drama
Mo’ Better Blues

Mo’ Better Blues

Mo’ Better Blues
IMDb: 6.6
130 min

Opens with Bleek as a baby studying to play the trumpet, his associates need him to return out and play however mom insists he end his classes. Bleek grows into…

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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.5
132 min

A married and successful black man contemplates having an affair with a white woman in the work. He is quite rightly stressed that the racial gap could create a taboo…

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Genre: Romance
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Malcolm X
IMDb: 7.7
202 min

A tribute to the black activist and pioneer of the battle for black liberation. He hit during his imprisonment at the ’50therefore , he became a Muslim and a pioneer…

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Genre: History
Crooklyn

Crooklyn

Crooklyn
IMDb: 7.0
115 min

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her cussed jazz-musician husband and their 5 children dwelling in ’70s Brooklyn.

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Genre: Drama
Clockers

Clockers

Clockers
IMDb: 6.9
128 min

Attack is a youthful town medication pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. After a night manager in a fast-food restaurant can be located with four holes in…

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Genre: Drama, Mystery
4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls
IMDb: 7.8
102 min

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls that had been there for Sunday school. It was a crime which stunned…

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Genre: Documentary
He Got Game

He Got Game

He Got Game
IMDb: 6.9
136 min

A basketball player’s dad must attempt to convince him to visit a school so he could find a shorter sentence.

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Genre: Drama
Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam
IMDb: 6.7
142 min

Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in new york during summer time of 1977 focusing to the inhabitants of that an Italian-American South Bronx area who reside…

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The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy
IMDb: 6.9
115 min

The Original Kings of Comedy accomplishes the seemingly impossible job of capturing the rollicking and sly comedy routines of stand-up and sitcom vets Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer,…

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25th Hour

25th Hour

25th Hour
IMDb: 7.7
135 min

At new york in the days after the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is just a convicted drug dealer going to begin a seven-year prison sentence, along with his last…

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Genre: Drama
She Hate Me

She Hate Me

She Hate Me
IMDb: 5.3
138 min

Fired from his occupation, ” a former executive functions to impregnating wealthy lesbians for benefit.

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Genre: Drama
Inside Man

Inside Man

Inside Man
IMDb: 7.6
129 min

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan financial institution, lock the doorways and take hostages, the detective assigned to impact their launch enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption prices he’s…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna
IMDb: 6.1
160 min

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of 4 American troopers who’re members of the all-black 92nd “Buffalo Soldier” Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy throughout World Conflict II.

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Genre: War
Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer
IMDb: 4.9
121 min

When his mother deposits him on the Red Hook housing venture in Brooklyn to spend the summer season with the grandfather he’s by no means met, younger Flik might as…

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Genre: Drama
Oldboy

Oldboy

Oldboy
IMDb: 5.7
104 min

A typical person has three 5 a week and limited funds to detect why he had been imprisoned at a non descript room for 20 years with no explanation.

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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
IMDb: 4.1
123 min

Dr. Hess Inexperienced turns into cursed by a mysterious historic African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Quickly after his transformation he enters right into a…

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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq
IMDb: 5.7
127 min

A contemporary version of this early Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, place against the history of gang violence from Chicago.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
IMDb: 7.4
93 min

Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson’s early rise to fame.

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