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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: New Video
EAN: 0767685154694
Feature: Acclaimed director Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boys) helms this powerful history of two of America s deadliest gangs, offering insight into the ongoing tragedy of South Central, as well as hope for its future. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 767685154694 UPC: 767685154694 Manufacturer No: NNVG154691
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
MPN: NNVG154691
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Features:- Acclaimed director Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boys) helms this powerful history of two of America s deadliest gangs, offering insight into the ongoing tragedy of South Central, as well as hope for its future. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 767685154694 UPC: 767685154694 Manufacturer No: NNVG154691
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Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 05/26/2009
Amazon.com:
Rival L.A. gangs the Crips and Bloods have permeated deep into American pop culture including film, television, and music epitomizing wanton violence and hopelessness. Regardless of how gritty gang life is portrayed in entertainment, nothing can compare to the disturbing and frightening reality of life in South Central Los Angeles. Stacy Peralta's (Dogtown and Z-Boys, Riding Giants) chilling documentary Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a peek into their world, setting out to uncover why the rivalry was created and continues. It begins with a history lesson of the area and how racism, segregation, constant police monitoring, unemployment, broken homes, and civil unrest (e.g., the Watts riots) sowed the seeds of animosity, tension, and violence. The younger generation in the 1970s gravitated towards gang life seeking acceptance, identity, community, and protection. But as the gangs grew larger they became more territorial. Guns were eventually introduced, then drugs, leading to the 30-year war that has claimed the lives of over 15,000 people, just miles away from Beverly Hills. Combining archival footage and loads of candid interviews from existing and former members, Crips and Bloods is a gripping and honest telling of a horrible situation. --Rob Bracco
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This is an absolutely outstanding documentary which puts in historical context the systematic degradation/destruction/elimination that is being perpetrated on black men from the inner cities of this country. I can't say enough good things about this film, so I'll keep it simple: if you want to understand how racism continues to keep black folks oppressed, in poverty, hopeless, economically marginalized and self-destructive, watch this film. Hitler couldn't have come up with a better plan.
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America: 5 out of 10: This documentary starts out with the eye opening fact that the 15,000 killed in gang violence between the Crips and the Bloods is 5 times the number killed in The Troubles in Northern Ireland. I found this particularity poignant since the Irish troubles always struck me as one of the stupidest wars in modern history. Clearly The Crips and the Bloods are also in that category. (One might also note that in both conflicts the participants consist almost ... Read More
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Most other documentaries simply make a spectacle of the gang life, with footage of shootings, drug dealing, and gangbangers with their faces covered talking about how ruthless they are. instead of any kind of in-depth examination of the anatomy of a gang member, they market as much sensational violence as they can compile, and pepper the footage with criticisms that depict all gang members as evil, crazy, and irredeemable.
This documentary was made with great care and genuine respect ... Read More
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Outstanding!!! Everyone should see this film. An honest effort to reveal some hidden truths.
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I just watched this documentary last week and I will have to watch it again this week as it was all surreal. I live in the sub-burbs only 30 miles away and had no Idea the meaning behind what was going on in the city. I think to myself, can that be real, or just another "movie?" That is why I have to watch it over and over again, to drive the point home. I both cried and was scared during watching this documentary. It is really incredible what these guys have been through and the subsequent mind ... Read More
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: New Video
EAN: 0767685154694
Feature: Acclaimed director Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boys) helms this powerful history of two of America s deadliest gangs, offering insight into the ongoing tragedy of South Central, as well as hope for its future. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 767685154694 UPC: 767685154694 Manufacturer No: NNVG154691
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Languages:
Manufacturer: NEW VIDEO GROUP
MPN: NNVG154691
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
Theatrical Release Date: 2008