Marc Levin

Set in the melting pot of Brooklyn, New York, worlds collide, cultures clash, and sparks fly in this music-driven love story between a charismatic Rasta rapper and a young Jewish beauty. (Off Line Entertainment)

The film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith's acclaimed play, Twilight: Los Angeles presents Smith's one-woman/multi-voiced portrait of the violent aftermath in Los Angeles triggered by the acquittal in 1992 of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King. (Offline Releasing)

A funny and searing look at America's youth struggling to find their place amidst a sea of designer labels in an image-driven society. Flip (Hoch) is the hip hop poet of his own white boy crew. The son of a working class Iowa family, Flip just wants "to keep it real" by moving into the Chicago ghetto to live and write million-dollar rap hits like his heroes. (Fox Searchlight)

In this documentary, Marc Levin gives us an explosive exploration of resurgent anti-Semitism in the wake of September 11. (ThinkFilm)

Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent. (imdb)

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s... (imdb)

A documentary that goes behind the walls of three of America's toughest penitentiaries to reveal how drugs are bought and sold, as well as used and abused, by a majority of the convicts serving time.

An in depth look into D.C. prison life through a handful of inmates and their families.

Raw and unflinching, this award-winning HBO film looks at the death and destruction caused by gang warfare across the United States. With unlimited access, the filmmakers document the lives and culture of rival Arkansas factions... (imdb)

Marc Levin revisits many of the gang members from his documentary 'Gang Wars: Bangin in Little Rock'. It's 10 years later and some of them have reformed...

Chronicling religious zealots and their war on abortion.

Though the recession officially ended in summer 2009, the fallout continues for some 25 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, many of whom worked their way up the corporate ladder, achieving the American Dream, only to see it slip through their fingers. (hbo.com)

Account of the 2010-11 boys' basketball season at St. Patrick High School, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Elizabeth, New Jersey.

A documentary tracking the rise and fall of crack kingpin "Freeway" Ricky Ross.

Documentary about class division and gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public housing. (imdb)

Looks at the past and present of New York's garment district, from its heyday as a base for immigrant labor and unions to its recent decline. (imdb)

Robert Downey, Jr. gives reports and interviews with other stars in this documentary about the Democratic National Convention in 1992.