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An 11-year-old boy learns about manhood as he accompanies the uncle he worships, an ex-con, on a mission to raise money through a drug deal.

A Most Beautiful Thing chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago), all coming together to row in the same boat.

Stand up and make yourself heard--that is the message that went out to more than 500 teenagers as they assembled in Los Angeles for the Brave New Voices 2010 National Slam team championships. Capturing all the excitement and poetry of the five-day festival, this special culminates in the Grand Slam Finals between four teams as they compete in front of a raucous audience.

A film tracing the relationship between hip-hop and the President of the United States.

Follow the three-year journey of two young men, through small triumphs and big setbacks, as they train to become professional magicians.

John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and battles against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

Actor Michael Rapaport turns documentary filmmaker with this look at the turbulent career of progressive New York hip-hop outfit A Tribe Called Quest.

After moving to Los Angeles, a stand-up comic finds her love life getting complicated just as her career is about to move up to the next level.

A female physical therapist is drafted by an all-star basketball player to help him recover from a career-threatening injury. The two soon fall in love in what is a modern-day Cinderella story.

An enslaved woman escapes a secluded Georgia plantation, making a shocking discovery when she finds herself in a post-civil rights era American south.

A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip-hop, but her parents demand that she finish college. She dutifully agrees to complete her education. However, her spoken word proves to have a powerful impact in the classroom.

Actor, writer and comic Dave Chappelle loads up a bus with residents of his Ohio hometown and takes them to Brooklyn, N.Y. Once there, the travelers enjoy a concert featuring Kanye West, the Fugees, Big Daddy Kane and others. Rehearsal footage and Chappelle's brand of comedy enliven the proceedings.

During the 1990s, Stretch and Bobbito introduced the world to an unsigned Nas, Biggie, Wu-Tang, and Big Pun as well as an unknown Jay-Z, Eminem, and the Fugees. The total record sales for all the artists that premiered on their radio show exceeds 300 million. The late night programme had a cult following in the worlds of art and fashion as well as with the nation's prison population.

Pete Koslow is a former special operations soldier working as an informant for the FBI to help dismantle the Polish mafia's drug trade in New York. But when the FBI's operation goes wrong, resulting in the death of an undercover NYPD cop, Pete is coerced into returning to Bale Hill, the prison he previously served time in for manslaughter, to take down the cartel from the inside.

The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood, and how she single-handedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.

A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her life against the black ops organization she works for after asking questions and breaking protocol.

Follows composer Charles Fox from LA to Paris and Havana, as he and a group of world class musicians play phenomenal live music.

An untested American submarine captain teams up with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.

A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist.

The story of rapper Notorious B.I.G comes to life through stories from some of the biggest names in hip hop and never-before-seen video footage.