Movies: Spike Lee

Spike Lee and others reflect on this impactful film, more than two decades later....

A young white woman leaving a nightclub alone drops her cigarette lighter on the street. When a young black man follows her and attempts to return it, she panics and assumes he is attacking her. The ensuing chase threatens to erupt into violence....

A musical based on Viagra, Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug. Based on the article, “All Rise: The Untold Story of the Guys Who Launched Viagra.”...

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 of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in areas ...

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

In 1997, 17-year old Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank and went to prison for it; then he went to NYU film school and made this movie about his life. The movie presents itself as an act of atonement, and an attempt by Monroe to understand himself and...

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

A complex and compelling Trinidadian tale about a father returning from Canada to a resentful family....

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington discuss their fourth film together Inside Man....

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry....

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

Spike Lee takes us into the world of NBA nicknames, focusing on how Ray Allen's starring role in Lee's HE GOT GAME, forever associated him with his character, Jesus Shuttlesworth....

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

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...

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

Spike Lee explains the dream....

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

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

A Black screenwriter is hired to write the $50,000,000 remake of The Birth of a Nation....

Young Brett must navigate the underbelly of the Johannesburg gambling world as a seemingly harmless horse-racing bet jeopardizes the surprise he's prepared for his father's birthday....