Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Very little information about the Crips or Bloods. Confused and disjointed

This film was great.

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!

Brilliantly spans the complicated, insidious and even sometimes accidental embedding of racism in every facet of our society.

"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%.

Another great Peralta documentary. A tough watch, shining a little light on an important issue.

7/10 interesting documentation, some of the history is explained

Frankly, it's all the white man's fault.

Facinating and disturbing documentary about gang activity in South Central L.A. and the sad, sick merry go round it's created for itself and is a victim of.

How can a documentary about two of Americas most notrious street gangs be made and not a single mention of Stanley "Tookie" Williams is uttered? Crips and Bloods: Made in America starts off promising with some insights on how White America is mostly responsible for the creation of gangs but stops giving a history lesson about the time that the two notorious gangs are formed. The second half of the documentary felt more like a recruitment video than and actual in depth view of the hows and whys. Crips and Bloods: Made in America is interesting for the most part but really suffers from a lack of direction and insight.