Jason Mitchell
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking viewers back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world's...
2) Mudbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 1205
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families -- one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers -- are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer...
3) Detroit
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a criminal underworld that revolves around power, money, and danger, protecting family can lead to dark and desperate measures. When the pressures of building a better life become too much, Gigi is pulled back into a role she tried to escape, and gets caught up in the thrill of the ride. But when a shadowy figure threatens her daughter's life, Gigi must choose whether to surrender or fight.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On Chicago's south side, an average day finds kids prepping for school as their parents head off to work, and the elders keeping an eye on things from their front porches. But in this tough neighborhood, real dangers threaten daily to squelch dreams, and the simplest decisions can have life or death consequences. It is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection...
6) Superfly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a...