Some Well-Connected Movies
Glory

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
1989
Denzel Washington
actor
School Daze

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
1988
Giancarlo Esposito
actor
She's Gotta Have It

Story of a woman and her three lovers.
1986
Spike Lee
actor
Do the Right Thing

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
1989
Spike Lee
director
Do the Right Thing

1989
Spike Lee
writer
Mo' Better Blues
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
1990
Denzel Washington
actor
Giancarlo Esposito
actor
Spike Lee
actor
Spike Lee
director
Spike Lee
writer
Wesley Snipes
actor
Malcolm X

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.
1992
Denzel Washington
actor
Nothing to Lose

When a man (Robbins) believes he has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his boss, it sets off a chain reaction of events. First he wanders into a ghetto where a robber (...
1997
Giancarlo Esposito
actor
Girl 6

This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her screen tests with 'QT'. Out of work ...
1996
Spike Lee
actor
Malcolm X

1992
Spike Lee
director
Crooklyn

Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
1994
Spike Lee
writer
Sugar Hill

Hardened, uncomprimising drug dealer Roemello Skuggs decides to quit his scumbag profession so he may start a new life with his girlfriend. However, he soon learns getting out is nowhere ...
1993
Wesley Snipes
actor