Topic: Hip Hop

Direction Darby Wheeler · Sam Dunn · Scot McFadyen

Cast Sal Abbatiello · Paul Ackerley · Bill Adler · Charlie Ahearn

Plot 4 seasons. 16 episodes. Interviews with influential MCs, DJs and moguls trace the genre's dynamic evolution from the 1970s through the 1990s in this documentary series.

Direction Henry Chalfant · Tony Silver

Plot Style Wars is an early documentary on hip hop culture, made by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, made in New York City in 1983. The film has an emphasis on...

Direction Donald Glover · Hiro Murai · Janicza Bravo · Amy Seimetz

Cast Donald Glover · Emmett Hunter · Lakeith Stanfield · Terri Abney

Plot TV Series (2016-Present Day). 2 Seasons. 21 Episodes. Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; "Earnest 'Earn' Marks," an...

Direction Gerard Escuer

Cast Virginia Pérez Alonso · Daniel Amelang · Iker Bengoa · Iñigo Bengoa

Plot Documentary film about the new censorship in Spain, where the fact that 14 rappers could get into prison through 2018 is just the top of the iceberg. Where is this...

Direction Doug Pray

Plot A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers...

Direction Bobbito Garcia

Cast Common · Rosario Dawson · DJ Premier · DMX

Plot Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives explores the social impact of what the Source Magazine in 1998 voted, "The Best Hip Hop Radio Show Of All-Time." The documentary film...

Direction Alex Horwitz

Cast Lin-Manuel Miranda · Barack Obama · George W. Bush · Paul Ryan

Plot Hamilton's America delves even deeper into the creation of the Hamilton musical, revealing Lin-Manuel Miranda's process of absorbing and then adapting Hamilton's epic story into groundbreaking musical theater.

Direction Katell Quillévéré · Hélier Cisterne · Vincent Poymiro · David Elkaïm

Cast Anthony Bajon · Melvin Boomer · Andranic Manet · Laïka Blanc-Francard

Plot A series full of music about the famous french rap band NTM before it was even NTM, and about the arrival of hip hop in France, a time of changes,...

Direction Allen Hughes

Cast Dr. Dre · Jimmy Iovine · Ice Cube · Eminem

Plot A TV miniseries that examines the partnership between Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre - one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton - and their...

Direction Jack Clough

Cast Lily Brazier · Asim Chaudhry · Hugo Chegwin · George Keywood

Plot A mockumentary about a group of failed MCs from West London and their passion for pirate radio.

Direction Baz Luhrmann · Stephen Adly Guirgis · Ed Bianchi · Andrew Bernstein

Cast Justice Smith · Herizen F. Guardiola · Shameik Moore · Skylan Brooks

Plot The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City - broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped -- dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers...

Direction Michael Rapaport

Plot Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip-hop bands of all time, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of...

Direction Lauren Lazin

Cast Tupac Shakur · James Cagney · Snoop Dogg · Ice-T

Plot The first authorized documentary about the life and times of Tupac Amaru Shakur. This 90-minute feature documentary is driven by the music and art he created, and the revolutionary ideas...

Direction Spike Jonze

Cast Adam Horovitz · Mike D · Beastie Boys

Plot Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz of Beastie Boys tell you an intimate, personal story of their band, and their 40 years of friendship together.

Direction Juanma Sayalonga · David Sainz

Cast Gata Cattana · Juancho Marqués · Alejandra Martínez De Miguel · Sara Socas

Direction Mark Ford

Cast Too $hort · Alex Alonso · Bart Bartholomew · Charlie Beck

Plot Police brutality and the apartheid paved the way for the riots on 1991, Hip Hop was predicting this for years. Three days of inhuman fury narrated by rappers (Snoop Dogg,...

Direction Sacha Jenkins

Cast Wu-Tang Clan · Ghostface Killah · The GZA · Method Man

Plot 4 episodes. Documentary series that chronicles the history and cultural impact of hip hop artists, Wu-Tang Clan.

Direction Baz Luhrmann

Cast Justice Smith · Herizen F. Guardiola · Shameik Moore · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Direction Rich Peppiatt

Cast Móglaí Bap · Mo Chara · DJ Próvai · Michael Fassbender

Plot When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping...

Direction F. Gary Gray

Cast Lakeith Stanfield · Aldis Hodge · Jason Mitchell · Paul Giamatti

Plot In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music...