Movies: Spike Lee

The Election of President Barack Obama began on March 5, 1770 at the Boston Massacre with the death of Crispus Attucks....

A documentary exploring the historical concept of the narrative of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb." This short documentary compares the film with the actual events concerning the Cold...

A seemingly foolproof plan to scam gas station customers backfires when a small-time crook crosses two criminals, who promptly force him into service. But things only get worse when the robbery they rope him into turns violent....

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry....

A serial killer is taking down the hip hop industry one rapper at a time and the detectives on the case must get to him before the killer does....

A 1990 PBS documentary around the topic of A cappella music. Artists that performed as part of the documentary include The Mint Juleps, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Rockapella and The Persuasions. It also stars Spike Lee, Debbie Allen and a cameo appeara...

A musical based on Viagra, Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug. Based on the article, “All Rise: The Untold Story of the Guys Who Launched Viagra.”...

An 80s hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's timeless classic "Romeo and Juliet". Tybalt and his Capulet crew navigate a violent Brooklyn neighnourhood where underground sword dueling takes place....

A young white woman leaving a nightclub alone drops her cigarette lighter on the street. When a young black man follows her and attempts to return it, she panics and assumes he is attacking her. The ensuing chase threatens to erupt into violence....

A tribute documentary on Fernando Ramos da Silva, the famous child star of the acclaimed film by Hector Babenco, "Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco" (1981). 20 years after his assassination by the police, his co-stars and Babenco talk about Fernando's cont...

East Africa, 1928. Roguish black American gunslinger Gordon Hemingway teams up with the elite warrior Princess Zenebé of Ethiopia to rescue their kidnapped regent from an ancient evil....

Twenty-two-year-old Louis doesn't know whether his childhood friendship with Jack will last beyond today....

In this documentary, a variety of directors and actors, many of them well known, give answers to questions the viewer never hears -- answers which, on the face of it, call into question the validity of the whole filmmaking enterprise and the culture ...

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov....

"Through the Fire" chronicles the journey of Coney Island basketball star, Sebastian Telfair, from famed Lincoln High School straight to the NBA....

The best summer of her life is only the beginning for 13-year-old Mo’ne Davis. With the support of her family and passion for sports, Mo’ne stands for girls who want to play with the boys. She embodies the spirit that drives an athlete to push furthe...

Spike Lee short film submission for Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet...

Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo...

A Brooklyn teen learns she was born HIV-positive....

Spike Lee takes us into the world of NBA nicknames, focusing on how Ray Allen's starring role in Lee's HE GOT GAME, forever associated him with his character, Jesus Shuttlesworth....