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A cinematic homage to one of the greatest NBA basketball players ever, MICHAEL JORDAN TO THE MAX is a loving documentary that focuses on the last season the world-class Chicago Bulls player took part in before hanging up his sneakers. Directors...
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IMAX - Michael Jordan to the Max (Blu-ray Disc - 2000)
2000 - Sports/Recreation Rating: 11 Reviews
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Spike Lee ventures into the world of jazz music with this stylish romantic drama. Forced by his mother to study the trumpet, Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) has grown up to become the leader of a successful jazz quintet. Managed by his inept...
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Mo' Better Blues (DVD - 1990)
1990 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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With SCHOOL DAZE, writer-director Spike Lee examines the tensions, biases, and frustrations of middle-class black youth at a southern college campus. Lee combines musical and fantasy sequences with satirical scenes to tell this pointed story of two...
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School Daze (DVD - 1987)
1987 - Comedies Rating: Write a Review
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Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Little, son of a Nebraska preacher, on May 19,...
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Malcolm X (DVD - 1992)
1992 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Little, son of a Nebraska preacher, on May 19,...
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Malcolm X (Blu-ray Disc - 1992) DigiBook
1992 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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Spike Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by Lee (and nominated for an Oscar), follows a...
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Do the Right Thing (Blu-ray Disc - 1989) 20th Anniversary
1989 - Dramas Rating: 10 Reviews
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Five groundbreaking films from prolific filmmaker Spike Lee come together in this collection. Starring such heavyweights as Rosie Perez, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and John Turturro in career-defining roles, the films include CROOKLYN, DO THE...
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The Spike Lee Joint Collection (DVD - 1989) 3 - Disc Box Set
1989 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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Entertainment mogul Walter Latham has earned his reputation as one of the most successful promoters of African-American comedy by producing a slate of smash-hit specials that have transformed previously unknown standup comics into household names....
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The Latham Comedy Collection (DVD - 2000) 4-Disc Set
2000 - Comedies Rating: Write a Review
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GOOD FENCES stars Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover as an upwardly-mobile black couple confronting the limitations of the American Dream in 1970s Connecticut. Tom Spader (Glover) is a successful attorney who decides to cement his upper-class status...
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Good Fences (DVD - 2003)
2003 - Comedies Rating: Write a Review
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Taye Diggs plays Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream. Leaving behind his girlfriend Robin (Sanaa Lathan), he heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding (Chestnut). Once there, he reunites with...
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The Best Man (DVD - 1999)
1999 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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LOVE AND BASKETBALL is the powerful story of two next-door neighbors in Los Angeles who grow up loving basketball and, eventually, each other. Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) have wanted to be basketball stars since they were kids....
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Love and Basketball (DVD - 2000)
2000 - Dramas Rating: 22 Reviews
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Spike Lee's follow-up to WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE (2006) revisits New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to monitor improvements in housing, education, infrastructure, the economy, and social services since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The nearly four-hour...
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If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (DVD - 2010)
2010 - Education/General Interest Rating: Write a Review
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Poliwood (DVD - 2009)
2009 - Education/General Interest Rating: Write a Review
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Spike Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by Lee (and nominated for an Oscar), follows a...
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Do the Right Thing (DVD - 1989) 20th Anniversary
1989 - Dramas Rating: 10 Reviews
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His time as a director may have seen Spike Lee gently creep away from the controversial material that made his name, but he hasn't lost his eye for creating an entertaining spectacle; INSIDE MAN is a deliriously constructed crime caper designed to...
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Inside Man (Blu-ray Disc - 2006)
2006 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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All Spike Lee's movies, from SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT forward, have tackled big ideas head-on using wide strokes to a paint a picture that is both impressionistic and realistic. Though not the most subtle director, Lee has consistently challenged both...
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Miracle at St. Anna (Blu-ray Disc - 2008) Blu-ray
2008 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee turns his camera toward the stage for this filmed performance of the acclaimed Broadway musical by singer/songwriter Stew and his creative partner Heidi Rodewald. Developed at the Sundance Theater Lab, the story...
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Passing Strange (DVD - 2008)
2008 - Musical & Performing Arts Rating: Write a Review
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All Spike Lee's movies, from SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT forward, have tackled big ideas head-on using wide strokes to a paint a picture that is both impressionistic and realistic. Though not the most subtle director, Lee has consistently challenged both...
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Miracle at St. Anna (DVD - 2008)
2008 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT formally introduced the name Spike Lee to audiences all over the world. The film, an intelligent comedy shot in black-and-white with one sequence of color, places--for among the first time--a young, bright African-American woman...
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She's Gotta Have It (DVD - 1986)
1986 - Comedies Rating: Write a Review
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Spike Lee directs this Showtime original, turning his perceptive eye to the streets of San Francisco and the different--or not-so-different--criminal worlds that city is host to. Three young men are drawn into corruption as they struggle to survive:...
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Sucker Free City (DVD - 2005)
2005 - Dramas Rating: Write a Review
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