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Crips and Bloods: Made in America
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With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.
With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.
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#Crips and Bloods: Made in America #Jim Brown #Kershaun Scott #Stacy Peralta #Tony Muhammad
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February 06, 2009
Stacy Peralta's documentary traces the emergence of gangs in L.A., as well as their contexts and causes.
March 13, 2009
The film works best as a history lesson of the L.A. black experience, arguing that economic neglect, institutional racism and covert government operations fueled the 1965 and 1992 riots and created the leadership vacuum in which gangs took root.
February 20, 2009
Deals almost entirely in known facts, but it's still a revelatory film.
January 27, 2009
A solid picture that leaves much for discussion, Crips and Bloods maps the paths, even if it leaves some lots vacant along the way.
January 23, 2009
The movie feels less like a traditional documentary than an educational video. But it works the way he wants it to: you'll walk out feeling both enlightened and dismayed.
May 27, 2009
Stacy Peralta's insider glimpse at the lives of LA gangs is a genuine shocker.
April 23, 2009
Crips and Bloods hasn't been made out of moral anger or a sense of conspiracy. As matters of journalism, sociology, and humanitarianism, the movie is incurious at best. At worst, it's a recruitment video.
March 01, 2009
Stacy Peralta's visual style and sense of storytelling when applied to a weightier subject than surfing or skating actually works surprisingly well.
New York Times
January 23, 2009
With Crips and Bloods: Made in America, the director Stacy Peralta manages to put a human face on a subject that tends to inspire inflamed debate.
February 20, 2009
Don't miss this.
Denver Post
April 03, 2009
Peralta is a compassionate filmmaker.
January 21, 2009
The self-perpetuating cycle of hopelessness, ignorance and poverty is certainly a depressing spectacle. But it's not a very revelatory one.