52 Blocks: Show and Prove
Overview
As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United States' only existing native martial culture, as it is indeed, the jazz of the martial arts world. Across the African diaspora, there are manifestations of African-derived warrior-dances, capoeira in brazil, mani in Cuba, ladja in Martinique, pinge in Haiti- yet the US offshoot has remained esoteric, because it was suppressed throughout slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow and then obscured in the criminal justice system. The history, interviews and training of the martial arts style that created Breakdance and boxing greats like Mike Tyson.
Release date
01/01/2007
Votes
0
Popularity
0.8
Original Soundtrack
Loading soundtrack videos…
Looking for Angelina
The Get By: Making It on the Streets of NYC
Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut
Town Bloody Hall
Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
Filhos do Meio – South Side Hip Hop Stories
Richard Wright: Native Son, Author and Activist
Les 16 de Basse-Pointe
Interview Between Napoleon and the Pope
Not Quite Hollywood
The New York Hardcore Chronicles Film
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
They Wore The Red Suit
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
Straight from the Projects: Rappers That Live the Lyrics - Brownsville, Brooklyn
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
The Shaolin Kid: A Boy In China
Seekers of Oblivion
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown
Amadeu