40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks films

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Spike Lee's award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.

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David Byrne's American Utopia

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.

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Do the Right Thing

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 8

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Bu...

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Bad 25

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants,...

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Malcolm X

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nati...

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25th Hour

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.6

In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging ou...

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Inside Man

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.6

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing...

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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Spike Lee returns to New Orleans five years after Katrina to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.

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BlacKkKlansman

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

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