40 Acres, a list by MDatum CTVN

7.9

/122413/

78

/3479/

77

/1922/

4.4

/477967/

92

/150/

89

/3366/

93

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

87

8.2

/5779/

81

/340/

76

/81/

4.3

/27415/

97

/143/

85

/46/

93

/28/

4.0

age 12+

A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.

85

7.8

/3845/

76

/123/

72

/47/

4.0

/5623/

100

/25/

90

/116/

88

/16/

4.0

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.

83

7.7

/109591/

77

/3055/

75

/1815/

4.3

/176399/

89

/83/

91

/2301/

73

/15/

4.0

age 13+

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

83

7.5

/310054/

76

/16047/

74

/7910/

4.0

/1075708/

96

/448/

83

/1723/

83

/56/

4.0

age 15+

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

80

7.3

/457/

72

/28/

49

/11/

3.9

/933/

100

/26/

90

/65/

85

/11/

4.0

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.

78

7.4

/2565/

76

/294/

69

/77/

3.7

/2635/

92

/13/

91

/26/

66

/10/

3.5

Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame.

77

7.6

/190464/

74

/3615/

73

/2495/

3.9

/106405/

80

/176/

85

/4044/

69

/40/

3.5

age 18+

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

77

6.9

/6378/

68

/112/

63

/73/

3.6

/5483/

89

/45/

71

/161/

84

/27/

4.0

age 16+

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.

77

7.2

/26253/

74

/855/

73

/455/

3.7

/53320/

86

/113/

95

/8465/

73

/29/

3.0

age 14+

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

76

7.0

/12170/

74

/298/

68

/154/

3.9

/23562/

79

/33/

89

/751/

65

/16/

3.5

age 13+

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

76

7.6

/421239/

76

/12352/

73

/6168/

3.7

/279268/

86

/210/

85

/14531/

76

/39/

2.5

age 17+

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

74

6.5

/57112/

66

/2575/

65

/1141/

3.5

/148334/

92

/315/

53

/663/

82

/49/

4.0

age 17+

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

74

6.8

/17439/

68

/482/

67

/347/

3.6

/67919/

94

/33/

72

/262/

79

/11/

age 17+

The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.

74

6.9

/54387/

71

/1185/

67

/770/

3.6

/48768/

82

/65/

83

/1375/

64

/21/

3.5

age 17+

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

73

6.8

/6364/

77

/413/

64

/65/

3.6

/5270/

82

/101/

79

/526/

73

/37/

3.0

The house is rockin' and the laughs are rollin' as comedians Steve Harvey (The Steve Harvey Show), D.L. Hughley (The Hughleys), Cedric The Entertainer (The Steve Harvey Show) and Bernie Mac (Life) meet in this riotously comedy summit directed by Spike Lee.

73

6.9

/24714/

70

/559/

67

/343/

3.7

/22818/

75

/64/

74

/454/

71

/20/

3.5

age 17+

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

72

6.6

/20889/

65

/375/

63

/304/

3.5

/18583/

81

/52/

67

/458/

78

/24/

3.5

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

71

6.1

/1204/

69

/45/

60

/17/

3.5

/2023/

93

/14/

56

/4/

76

/8/

3.5

Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.

70

6.2

/700/

60

/36/

51

/14/

3.6

/1089/

100

/9/

55

/2/

78

/5/

3.5

age 15+

25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this Spike Lee-produced one-man show (Roger Guenver Smith) will be streaming on Netflix. A complex, semi-tragic figure, King drowned in 2012. His life was rarely smooth, or simple – its telling makes for a sober, moving watch.

69

5.5

/30012/

61

/2690/

55

/404/

2.8

/118753/

83

/231/

83

/580/

74

/47/

3.5

age 15+

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

69

6.6

/3686/

72

/158/

62

/45/

3.4

/1355/

62

/13/

83

/127/

3.0

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.

69

6.7

/14844/

68

/346/

65

/251/

3.7

/21525/

71

/35/

75

/382/

61

/23/

3.0

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.

70

69

6.7

/12725/

73

/444/

66

/143/

3.4

/9009/

71

/70/

86

/785/

61

/30/

age 16+

After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based on the lives and loves of his tight-knit group of friends. Harper is set to be best man at his friend Lance's wedding, and all his friends will be in attendance. When an advance copy of the book makes its way into the hands of his ex-flame, Jordan, Harper attempts to keep it under wraps.

69

5.9

/11234/

65

/591/

57

/214/

3.3

/18707/

82

/149/

53

/287/

77

/37/

4.0

age 18+

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

66

6.6

/10931/

68

/527/

63

/180/

3.7

/30089/

60

/25/

69

/359/

A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.

79

66

7.9

/2544/

81

/126/

73

/72/

3.9

/2662/

92

/12/

87

/28/

69

/13/

Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers, and such music-world superstars as Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green and Mariah Carey.

66

6.2

/2877/

66

/158/

60

/57/

3.2

/2343/

67

/52/

89

/41/

62

/17/

2.5

age 17+

Two young poets with bipolar disorder begin a highly passionate, volatile relationship that threatens both their futures.

66

6.7

/43790/

66

/764/

65

/513/

3.5

/37299/

50

/103/

60

/933/

67

/26/

3.5

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.

65

6.1

/8635/

68

/258/

57

/108/

3.3

/13414/

58

/31/

78

/501/

52

/12/

3.5

age 16+

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

63

6.7

/12975/

68

/252/

62

/148/

3.9

/24932/

53

/107/

74

/623/

56

/39/

2.0

age 16+

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

62

5.3

/12168/

58

/1329/

55

/548/

2.8

/16435/

93

/43/

38

/93/

74

/9/

3.0

age 15+

As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

65

57

6.3

/2782/

68

/183/

65

/147/

2.7

/3138/

59

/17/

89

/36/

60

/4/

age 14+

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him

55

6.1

/19664/

64

/448/

61

/390/

2.9

/6820/

33

/120/

51

/1576/

37

/31/

3.0

age 18+

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.

53

5.3

/2053/

64

/44/

55

/24/

2.9

/3024/

57

/65/

34

/78/

48

/25/

2.5

age 16+

When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.

52

5.8

/84377/

63

/3783/

59

/2070/

2.1

/70965/

39

/150/

37

/1239/

49

/41/

3.0

age 18+

A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.

50

5.4

/6921/

60

/99/

49

/119/

3.5

/9774/

39

/36/

36

/135/

44

/23/

2.0

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

50

5.3

/8534/

61

/148/

51

/117/

2.7

/5277/

19

/101/

59

/421/

30

/37/

3.0

age 18+

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

54

49

4.4

/2538/

59

/216/

50

/62/

2.3

/4186/

78

/9/

52

/70/

Mr. Simms returns to tell more eerie, unsettling tales involving dolls, psychics, possession and ghosts.

49

4.5

/2077/

56

/82/

47

/67/

2.7

/3873/

49

/43/

20

/25/

52

/19/

3.0

age 17+

Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.

73

46

7.2

/890/

55

/14/

51

/9/

3.6

/692/

100

/9/

85

/43/

78

/5/

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

38

5.0

/695/

53

/20/

28

/10/

3.2

/207/

17

/6/

45

/7/

0.5

Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.

75

34

7.2

/546/

77

/17/

66

/18/

3.5

/487/

92

/13/

88

/4/

65

/8/

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 that bear the indelible scars of the drug trade—Manos Sucias refuses to glamorize the drug trade but rather seeks to offer a rare glimpse of its devastating effects.

65

33

6.6

/1597/

68

/38/

65

/20/

3.6

/1290/

58

/23/

A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day of the 2008 NBA playoffs.

50

31

5.1

/1247/

56

/108/

51

/48/

2.6

/1867/

43

/14/

Following the franchise's cult classic roots, this new anthology featuring Tony Todd and Lynn Whitfield will scare and thrill with its horrifying twists and social commentary.

66

26

6.7

/1453/

73

/17/

59

/25/

3.3

/572/

68

/17/

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia. Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter's Point where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss' daughter Angela (Carpio), a Stanford student engaged to a medical student classmate.

55

20

5.8

/1438/

58

/37/

57

/33/

3.2

/218/

42

/11/

The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.

61

18

6.5

/945/

65

/18/

48

/15/