Movies: Spike Lee

Life imitates art when the understudy of a Broadway production finds a role he’s willing to kill for....

Struggling jazz musician Cecil (Branford Marsalis) busks on a Brooklyn street corner to make some money for his family....

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 the east coast's Madison Square Garden in New York City with press stops along the way and behind th...

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....

Spike Lee interviews Mike Tyson and those around him....

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

Prince and the new power generation music video...

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis....

This short film combines footage of the chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of the New York City Police Department and an interview with an acquaintance of his....

Bernie Mac on the "Kings of Comedy tour", this time live from Charlotte, SC....

Directed by Darius Clark Monroe and executive produced by Spike Lee, this documentary short tells the story of what happened when a group of college athletes decided to protest a long-standing racial injustice....

Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his films, which include "Watermelon Man" and "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." In this documentary, the life of Van Peebles is discussed, including hi...

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...

Director Spike Lee (Malcolm X) has lived and worked in New York City for his entire career. He loves New York City and talks about the movies he has shot in Brooklyn: “I grew up here, it’s my home. It developed who I am and what I’ve become, so it’s ...

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Nike....

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....

In the rural south, a Black boy tries to fly....

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 ...

When University of Missouri football players threatened to boycott their game with Brigham Young University last November unless president Tim Wolfe resigned, they made news far beyond the sports pages and Columbia, Missouri. But that was only one ch...

Spike Lee’s tribute to the Bronx in promotion of the Yankees’ 2024 season opener....