Spike Lee Movies

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.

In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically...

A 1990 PBS documentary around the topic of A cappella music. Artists that performed as part of the documentary include The Mint Juleps, Ladysmith...

In apartheid South Africa, a forbidden friendship between two boys is tested by a life-saving act that forces them to confront the hate dividing...

In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...

Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and...

The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in...

Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a...

In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a...

The story of the Harlem Rens: the greatest basketball team you never heard of.

A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."

On the road documentary with Prince and the New Power Generation during their 2004 Musicology tour from the west coast Los Angeles' House of Blues to...

French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their...

An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.

Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions...

An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face...

Against the simmering anxieties of post-Roe America, a Chinese-American teenager and her boyfriend attempt to buy the morning-after pill in a small...

Two young poets with bipolar disorder begin a highly passionate, volatile relationship that threatens both their futures.

A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.