Movies: Spike Lee

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 ...

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

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beat...

Spike Lee's video valentine to New York City during the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020....

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...

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

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....

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 ...

Follows a group of military cadets on one crazy night in New York City during Fleet Week....

3 Brothers compiles Radio Raheem’s death scenes from Do the Right Thing with real footage of the deaths of Eric Garner in 2014 and George Floyd last week. All three men, including the fictional one, were killed by white police officers restraining th...

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