Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Play trailer Poster for Crips and Bloods: Made in America 2008 1h 45m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
76% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 73% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
An examination reveals conditions that have led to decades of gang violence among youth growing up in South Los Angeles.
Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

Where to Watch

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Critics Reviews

View All (21) Critics Reviews
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: C+ Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Wesley Morris Boston Globe Crips and Bloods hasn't been made out of moral anger or a sense of conspiracy. As matters of journalism, sociology, and humanitarianism, the movie is incurious at best. At worst, it's a recruitment video. Rated: 1/4 Apr 23, 2009 Full Review Lisa Kennedy Denver Post Peralta is a compassionate filmmaker. Rated: 2.5/4 Apr 3, 2009 Full Review David Harris Spectrum Culture While its scope and depth could have been greater, it is the first step on an important path we all need to undertake in this country. Rated: 3/5 Oct 3, 2019 Full Review Jennifer Merin About.com Stacy Peralta's insider glimpse at the lives of LA gangs is a genuine shocker. Rated: 4/5 May 27, 2009 Full Review Stan Hall Oregonian The film works best as a history lesson of the L.A. black experience, arguing that economic neglect, institutional racism and covert government operations fueled the 1965 and 1992 riots and created the leadership vacuum in which gangs took root. Rated: B Mar 13, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (142) audience reviews
dogribmoon L Very little information about the Crips or Bloods. Confused and disjointed Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/22/24 Full Review Audience Member Very informative documentary that goes into detail about the origins of African american gangs...great soundtrack and Forrest Whitaker narrating makes for a interesting watch Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This film was great. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review greg r You had me until you suddenly blamed white people for why you began killing one another. Idiots. Poorly produced and with a ridiculous premise. You wanna attack the oppressors, fine. But killing one another makes you look ignorant! One of the worst documentaries ever made. Dreadfully bad! And I'm a flaming snowflake liberal. Man was this doc awful! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Brilliantly spans the complicated, insidious and even sometimes accidental embedding of racism in every facet of our society. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review walter m "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" is an incisive inside documentary about the infamous Los Angeles gangs whose conflict over the past forty years have resulted in over 15,000 deaths. While that same early mortality prevents the filmmakers from putting together a cohesive oral history, they still find plenty of current and past gang members, some of whom have not left their own block or territory in decades, in order to get their stories. Overall, this all began even before the founding of the gangs, going back to the migration of black families from the deep south. They found a living situation that was better than the one they left of course but also one where where their children would face police brutality which would eventually lead to the Watts Riot.(The documentary with some nostalgia refers to this as an uprising.) That would prove no matter how much violent resistance there is, the resulting crackdown will be that much worse. At the same time, "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" relies on too much background, even rewinding back to the beginning at one late point. Also, the documentary quotes the cliche of the lack of a male role model, when it fails to take in consideration the extremely high unemployment rate amongst young black men which Bernie Sanders has just stated is around 50%. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
Crips and Bloods: Made in America

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Movie Info

Synopsis An examination reveals conditions that have led to decades of gang violence among youth growing up in South Los Angeles.
Director
Stacy Peralta
Producer
Baron Davis, Jesse Dylan, Dan Halsted, Shaun Murphy, Stacy Peralta, Gus Roxburgh, Cash Warren
Screenwriter
Stacy Peralta, Sam George
Production Co
Balance Vector Productions
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$69.6K
Runtime
1h 45m
Most Popular at Home Now