Movies: Six Reasons

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together....

L.A.'s top Latino gang leader is release from jail on a technicality, swearing to kill both the cop who put him away and the priest who testified against him....

When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers....

At the dinner table sits a white family: the father (a police officer), a mother and their two sons—a teenager and his younger brother. The teenager has an African-American friend, J.B., whom he wants to hang out with, but his father doesn’t want him...

Leon Watkins runs a community helpline in South Central LA, where anyone in need of help is welcome. One of his most frequent visitors is local gang leader, John Wesley Hunter, otherwise known as “Joker” to the streets. After a day of hustling and al...