We talked about this illuminating film about the complicated and sometimes revolutionary beginnings of gang culture in the United States. It’s a little over an hour long and is definitely worth the time.

BASTARDS OF THE PARTY
122 min Documentary

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“This film traces the development of black gangs in Los Angeles from the late 1940s, through the charged atmosphere of the ’60s and ’70s, to the breakdown of community in the ’80s and ’90s, and the brief truce between the Crips and Bloods that followed the Rodney King riots in 1992.”

See the film website here:
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/bastardsoftheparty/synopsis.html

If ever there was a TV addict, it would be designer and filmmaker Rob Schröder.
For years he watched television on three screens at a time. Not only that, he recorded on tape what stroke him as fascinating, important, weird, disgusting or downright shocking.
In Moral Panic he edited forty years of viewing experience into a mind blowing collage of iconic images, freakish material and forgotten faces.