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1) Destroyer
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The moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.
2) Gang Modules
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The Gang Educational Program has 3 modules. The first module is a detailed look at two young brothers and their spiral into the BC gang lifestyle, with the predictable tragic outcome. Module Two looks at the largest gang exit strategy in the world, “Homeboy Industries” in L.A. with OSP members interviewing the founder, Father Greg Boyle. The last module is a profile of an incredibly successful Lower Mainland anti-gang strategy called the Wrap...
5) Election
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Every two years the senior members of the Wo Shing Triad, the oldest gang in Hong Kong, elect an up-and-coming younger boss as their chairman. The two candidates they are voting on couldn't be farther apart in personality; Lok (Simon Yam) is a levelheaded businessman and Big D (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) is a loud, obnoxious, violent criminal. When the voting does not go how some people would have liked, lines are divided and a gang war begins to form.
6) Warlock
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A famous gunman becomes the marshal of WARLOCK to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.
7) The Holly
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On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an "invisible city" within a historically white metropolis. The shooter, Terrance Roberts, was a revered anti-gang activist. Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in...
8) HomeGirls
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Homeboy Industries, the world’s largest gang intervention and re-entry organization, offers an unparalleled 18-month job-training program for recovering drug addicts and ex-gang members. The short documentary HOMEGIRLS intimately follows the lives of two of the programs’ female participants, Maria and Joselyn, over four months as they attempt to leave the past behind and start anew.. Through cinéma vérité filmmaking, our complex subjects face...
10) Inside Tattooing
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'Inside Tattooing' is a unique documentary looking at the art of prison tattooing. Through a series of candid discussions with inked up ex-prisoners, gang members and wardens 'Inside Tattooing' investigates the stories behind these striking and often confrontational symbols of expression.
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In the 1980s, Corey Pegues was embroiled in a life of crime as a member of New York City’s infamous Supreme Team gang. After a near-death gang confrontation, Pegues flees the city, only to return years later as a rising star in the NYPD. When Pegues speaks publicly in support of police reform, he becomes a target within the department and details of his former life are thrust into the spotlight.
12) Steps
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Years after a life-altering robbery, a home health aide finds himself assigned to the now-paralyzed gang member who shot him long ago. Executive Producer Shaquille O'Neal
13) Jamesy Boy
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A young gang member turns his life around in prison, thanks to the friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
14) Maigret
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In Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret comes under pressure from his superiors and the press to catch a serial killer of women with no common feature except their hair. Making no progress Maigret sets a trap using undercover police women. Maigret's Dead Man focuses on the murder of a gambler with connections to a brutal gang from Czechoslovakia whose members are robbing and killing wealthy Parisians.
15) Vendetta
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William Duncan’s daughter and wife are murdered by a ruthless crime family. Duncan is determined to get revenge, picking off members of the gang one by one, until he completes his mission of revenge, which ultimately destroys his own life.
16) Smash & Grab
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Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with {dollar}30 million in diamonds. They are captured – not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their...
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Flyin' Cut Sleeves, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film's co-producer, who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960's and early 1970's, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders' families and began to document their lives. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation,...
18) The Sins
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Four and a half years in prison is enough for Len Green to know he wants to stay within the law from now on. But, on his release, his wife, grown-up daughters, and former gang members do their best to persuade him that his path in life is never going to be straight. Len makes his way across the pitfalls in life that dog us all, coming to a greater understanding of his life, love, family and friends - and of himself.
19) Stray Dolls
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Riz, a recent immigrant and ex-gang member, works at a motel in hopes of starting her life over in America. Rooming with another motel maid Dallas, a bold runaway, blackmails Riz triggering a series of violent events involving Una (Cynthia Nixon), the formidable motel owner, and her drug-selling son Jimmy.
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Klunkerz: a film about mountain bikes documents mountain bike history during the late 1960s and 1970s in Northern California. The film examines the relationships of the San Francisco Bay Area hippies, athletes, artists and entrepreneurs who are directly responsible for the global popularization off-road cycling. Klunkerz includes interviews with those present at the embryonic stages of the sport including Mountain Bike Hall of Fame members Gary Fisher,...
