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Jun 25, 2020 · While Hollywood reckons with its role in glorifying police, we decided to look back at twenty-five films that have tackled systemic corruption and police brutality head-on. – Max Roux. READ MORE: 22 Films About Rebellion, Protests & Civil Unrest. “ Bad Lieutenant ” (1992)
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Sep 21, 2021 · On These Grounds: a shocking film about police brutality within US schools. In a new documentary, the story of a 16-year-old Black student who was assaulted by a white police officer exposes...
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- 1 | Do The Right Thing (1989) | Directed by Spike Lee
- 2 | Fruitvale Station (2013) | Directed by Ryan Coogler
- 3 | Selma (2013)| Directed by Ava Duvernay
- 4 | Straight Outta Compton (2015) | Directed by F. Gary Gray
- 5 | I Am Not Your Negro (2016)| Directed by Raoul Peck
- 6 | 13th (2016) | Directed by Ava Duvernay
- 7 | Blackkklansman (2018)| Directed by Spike Lee
Starring:Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, Giancarlo Esposito Genre:Drama, Comedy Rating:R Streaming:N/A Premise:On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Do the Right Thinglooks at the escalating racial tensions within a Brooklyn ne...
Starring:Michael B. Jordan, Meloni Diaz, Octavia Spencer Genre:Drama Rating:R Streaming:N/A Premise:The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Fruitvale Station is one of the most heartbreaking movies about police brutality I have ever seen. ...
Starring:David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey Genre:Drama Rating:PG-13 Streaming:Streaming free for June Premise:A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Out of all the films on this list, Selma is probably the most inspiring movie. At tim...
Starring:Corey Hawkins, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell Genre:Drama, Music Biopic Rating:R Streaming:N/A Premise:The rap group N.W.A emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. Straight Outta Comptonis a very different ...
Starring:Samuel L. Jackson Genre:Documentary Rating:PG-13 Streaming:Amazon Prime Premise:In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin...
Genre:Documentary Rating:TV-MA Streaming:Netflix Premise:An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality. 13th focuses primarily on the prison system in the United States. It explores how the implementation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, provided a loophole for...
Starring:John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier Genre:Drama, Comedy Rating:R Streaming:HBO Max, HBO Go Premise:Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actua...
Jun 2, 2020 · The Force (2017) / Crime + Punishment (2018) For decades, the Fox series Cops has done much to simplify the relationship between police and the communities they serve, working with departments to ...
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The cult French film, La haine, about police brutality in the Parisian suburbs was released 25 years ago. Its director, Mathieu Kassovitz, announced on Wednesday that he was preparing a...
Jun 1, 2020 · If you are looking to better understand the history that led to what you see on the news today — police brutality, punitive and unequal meting out of justice, demonstrable racial prejudice, and...
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Dec 10, 2014 · -- Spike Lee’s film, “Do The Right Thing,” is a chilling morality tale of police brutality, telling the story of a deadly choke hold by police, sparking a race riot. “Do The Right Thing,” which debuted 25 years ago, is eerily similar to what was captured on a cell phone video in the final moments in Eric Garner’s life.
