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American Gangster is a documentary television series that aired on BET. The show features some of Black America's most infamous and powerful gangsters and organized crime groups. [1] It is narrated by Ving Rhames. The series premiere, on November 28, 2006, amassed around one million viewers.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a 2008 documentary by Stacy Peralta that examines the rise of the Crips and Bloods, prominent gangs in America who have been at war with each other. The documentary focuses on the external factors that caused African-American youth to turn to gangs and questions the political and law enforcement response to ...
Pages in category "Documentary films about African-American gangs" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrates on Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz , and Lucky Luciano (Andy García). [2]
Grand Theft Auto V (2013) is mostly centered around Black American organized crime, with one of the main protagonists of the game, Franklin Clinton, being part of a Black American gang. Among the antagonists in Watch Dogs (2014) are the Black Viceroys, who were originally a civil-rights group until they turned to crime after their founder was ...
Gangsters: America's Most Evil is a documentary television series that airs on Reelz [1] which profiles notorious criminals whose crimes involve murder, drug trafficking, racketeering, and human trafficking. Most, if not all of, the criminals profiled in this series were either brought to justice by local, state, and federal law enforcement or ...
In the 1999 film Life, musician Rick James plays a Harlem gangster, "Spanky Johnson", who was loosely inspired by Bumpy Johnson. In the 2007 film American Gangster, Johnson is portrayed by Clarence Williams III. In the 2018 Netflix documentary series Drug Lords, Johnson was featured in the third episode of the first season.
Noted author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was also a filmmaker, most famously of the ethnographic documentary Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 This list of African American documentary films (1930s–present) includes films that were made by African Americans , as well as films on the topic of African Americans.