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Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

While dealing with a friend's cold feet on his wedding day, a writer reminisces about his youth with his best friends.

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

After witnessing a murder, a young boy named Devon refuses to testify unless he is given the chance to be a policeman.

In 1971 Virginia high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the school board was forced to integrate an all-black school with an all-white one, the very foundation of football's tradition was put to the test.

Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".

Erik is an ambitious teenager who spends more time posting fliers for his favorite rapper, Prolifik, than sitting in the classroom. When he and his best friend stumble across a dead body one night, they trigger a series of tragic events.

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he encounters. An unsuspecting substitute postman with his own troubled life becomes entangled in the boy's journey and family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.

Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam.

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves transported to a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that colorless, complacent world.

Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women.

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.

The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.

Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.

Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life.

Two bungling, petty criminal BFFs try to rob a church, but someone from staff beat them to it. They spend the night with the church staff to get the money.