SASI Film & Series Recommendations
The House on Coco Road
2016 documentary. “Set amidst the Grenada Revolution, THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD documents one family’s flight from racial tensions in 1980’s Oakland, California, only to find themselves settled directly in the path of a U.S. military invasion. First hand accounts from activists Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Fannie Haughton weave together director Damani Baker’s family portrait of utopian dreams, resistance and civil unrest with a film score composed by music luminary Meshell Ndegeocello” (Kanopy).
Menace II Society
1993 crime/thriller film. Journey of a young man to escape gang lifestyle and the obstacles he faces set in Los Angeles.
Kuessipan
2019 drama film. “Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community who promised each other to stick together no matter what. But their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy” (IMDb).
13th
2016 documentary film. “An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality” (IMDb).
The Hate U Give
2018 film based on a book. Internal struggle and fight for a voice within a teenaged girl when racial tensions rise after her childhood best friend is shot by police.
Boyz n the Hood
1991 crime drama film. “Three friends struggle to survive in South Central Los Angeles where friendship, pain, danger, and love form a true picture of life in the hood in this critically acclaimed, action-filled story” (Hulu).
Maurice's Bar
2023 animated short film. “In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner” (IMDb).
Atlanta
2016-22 TV series. “Earn and his cousin, Alfred, try to make their way in the world through Atlanta’s rap scene. Along the way they come face-to-face with social and economic issues touching on race, relationships, poverty, status and parenthood” (IMDb).
Fruitvale Station
2013 film. “The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008” (IMDb).