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Crips and Bloods [digital videodisc] : made in America / Docurama Films ; Verso Entertainment & Balance Vector Productions present a Form production ; written by Stacy Peralta & Sam George ; directed by Stacy Peralta ; a film by Stacy Peralta ; produced by Baron Davis ... [et al.] ; Gang Documentary, LLC.

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[New York, NY] : Docuramafilms : Distributed by New Video, [2009]

Gangs -- California -- Los Angeles.

Gang members -- Interviews.

Youth and violence.

Violence in men.

Criminal behavior.

Gang prevention.

Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.

1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

The war zone -- Ron, Bird, Kumasi, and the Slausons -- LAPD -- The Watts riot -- Black power & the Civil Rights era -- Birth of the Crips & the Bloods -- Life in the hood -- Gangs & guns -- Deep history -- Crack & the disintegration of families -- Prison & war on gangs -- The Rodney King riots -- The mothers -- Looking to the future.

A cluster of neighborhoods lies in the heart of Southern California, streets that form a grid between concrete ribbons of freeway. Nearly a quarter of its young men will end up in prison. Many others will end up dead. These neighborhoods in South Los Angeles are home to two of the most infamous African-American gangs, the Crips and the Bloods. On these mean streets over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in an ongoing cycle of gang violence that continues unabated. Here is where America's most bloody and costly outbreaks in civil unrest erupted - not once, but twice, 27 years and just three miles apart. Combines archival footage with in-depth interviews.

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