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- 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.
- 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.
- Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
- A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
- A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
- A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
- A high school loser pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
- An examination of the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
- 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.
- 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.
- A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
- Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
- A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
- Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
- 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.
- Life at the car wash is a place in Los Angeles, California where anything can and does happen to two friends Sean & Dee Loc (Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg) trying to earn money to pay their rent.
- An aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.
- Based on a true story, a black educator takes a job teaching high-school English at the Three Nations Reservation, and is coaxed into coaching the girls basketball team.
- A concert film featuring four major African American stand up comedians.
- A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
- An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux brothers living on the Pine Ridge reservation.
- A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
- An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronicling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.
- In 2006, director Spike Lee created an astonishing record of the cataclysmic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans with his epic award-winning documentary, When the Levees Broke. Five years later, Lee returns to New Orleans, to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City were playing out. He finds a patchwork of hope and heartache just as a new disaster unfolds. The four-hour documentary is a continuation of the heart-rending story of destruction and rebirth of America's most unique city.
- Mac is the ambitious, overbearing, irresistible oldest of three brothers who struggle against all odds to scrape together enough money to start their own business in Queens, New York.