Spike Lee

This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with ...

This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic ...

Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, ...

A documentary about the sport of boxing, as seen through the eyes of champions Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins.

The story of the Harlem Rens: the greatest basketball team you never heard of.

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

This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey, in which a City Councilman, Cory Booker, attempted to unseat longtime ...

Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his films, which include “Watermelon ...

This documentary showcases basketball player Michael Jordan’s awe-inspiring moves, providing behind-the-scenes and on-the-court action, ...

It’s 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of ...

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

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High ...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ...

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial ...

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But ...

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when ...

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other ...

Unbanned explores the dynamic life of AJ1 from its unlikely origins to its role in disrupting NBA rules, birthing sneaker culture, and ...

Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson’s Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of ...

A youthful perspective on the 1992 presidential campaign with a witty, cautionary message to young Americans to start participating in democracy ...