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- The illegal affairs of a recently deceased barbershop owner get passed down to his manager.
- Story of a woman and her three lovers.
- A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
- A music video for the song "Da Butt" which was performed by Experience Unlimited (a Go-Go band from Washington, D.C.) and released as part of the original soundtrack to the film School Daze (1988).
- On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
- Public Enemy performs in the music video "Fight the Power" from the album "Fear of a Black Planet" recorded for Def Jam Records. The music video opens with a demonstration on the street. Public Enemy performs as they walk down the street and stand on stage surrounded by protesters.
- The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
- Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
- Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
- Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
- Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
- The DROP (Deprogramming and Restoration of Pride) Squad is an outlaw organization that abducts and "deprograms" African-Americans who exploit and/or deny their cultural heritage. But their persuasive methods become increasingly violent.
- Paddy Chayefsky's 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66-year-old seeks a job after 40 years if being a homemaker.
- A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
- Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
- Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark,New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their neighbourhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.
- It is a 1995 music video by the hip-hop recording group Crooklyn Dodgers, a single released from the original soundtrack to Clockers (1995).
- A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
- An aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.
- A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
- A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
- Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
- Just before his best friend's wedding, the life of a Chicago writer becomes crazy when his best friend guesses that his new book's story is based on his bride's fervent past.
- Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.
- A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
- A concert film featuring four major African American stand up comedians.
- The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes viewer into world of taxi drivers.
- The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
- Angel, a young Hispanic man experiencing romantic woes (Arias), tries to defraud his way to financial gain by swiping credit cards at a gas station, but is caught in the act by the leader of a gang of home invaders (David) who forces him to chose - to join the crew of depraved burglars in their pursuit of trespass, or face uncertain reprisal. For a time it seems that Angel was born for this life of crime, but the gang's transgressions continue to devolve until the inevitable disaster brings about their unraveling, leaving Angel to chose where his loyalties lie - between his fellow gangsters and his own destiny as a prison-bound felon. On the all-too-short road from urban minority to wannabe gangster, will Angel learn fast enough - the life-lessons that just may help him save his own fate?
- Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
- An in-depth portrait of football legend and action movie star Jim Brown, including discussions about his childhood, his unequaled football career, his success in Hollywood, and his brushes with the law in his later years.
- A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
- Good Fences is about an upwardly-mobile Black family for whom the American dream becomes a nightmare. 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 high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to move his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.
- Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
- Sucker-Free City, or S.F.C., revolves around the conflicts among white, black, Latino and Asian street gangs in San Francisco.
- Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
- A Brooklyn teen learns she was born HIV-positive.
- A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
- An examination of the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
- 2006–20071h 7mTV-MA8.2 (110)TV EpisodeAct 1 of 4. Spike Lee's four-part HBO documentary event that recounts the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans in 2005.
- 2006–20071h 5mTV-148.3 (99)TV EpisodeAct 2 of 4. Spike Lee's four-part HBO documentary event that recounts the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans in 2005.
- A mini movie spoof of the life of Mariah Carey, with the Lovers and Haters that she encounters along the way, and how she overcomes those haters and obstacles to still be one of the most talented and loved musical sensations in history.
- Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
- Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
- A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day during a game against the San Antonio Spurs.
- The video features various scenes of Jackson's hometown and former residence in Gary, Indiana, along with photos and videos of him and tributes from his fans around the world.
- A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.