With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.

Made in America (2008)
  • Rating: (1,177 votes)
  • Runtime:93 minutes
  • Director: Stacy Peralta
  • Country:USA
  • Actor:
    Narrator
    Forest Whitaker
  • Genres:Documentary, Crime
  • Producers:
    Baron Davis
    producer  
    Jesse Dylan
    producer  
    Rachel Griffin
    line producer  
    Dan Halsted
    producer  
    Quincy Jones III
    executive producer  
    Steve Luczo
    executive producer  
    Shaun Murphy
    producer  
    Stacy Peralta
    producer  
    Gus Roxburgh
    producer  
    Cash Warren
    producer  
Made in America
  • User's comment:Very thorough, visually interesting, and powerful Documentary by Christian Strevy

    I recently saw this at Birmingham, Alabama's Sidewalk Film Festival. Stacey spoke afterward the screening about how the movie was shown many times to people in LA to make sure that he was getting the right angle. Also, that he spent months WITHOUT a camera getting to know the people that were featured in the film.

    Living in Birmingham, being one the nation's most dangerous and racially-divided cities, I can see how this film is relatable to all oppression-linked crime.

    I think that this issue is extremely too large for Stacey to have adjusted his focus any wider. To ask the director to squeeze more information into this documentary would be asking too much of him. I thought that it was, over-all, very interesting visually and in meaning which can be hard to come by in today's documentaries. I really hope HBO or some other distributer picks this doc up. It needs to be seen, not only by LA natives, but all of America.


  • Also known as: Crips and Bloods: Made in America (USA - new title), Gangs of L.A. (USA - working title), The Baron Davis Project (USA - working title),

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