Fab 5 Freddy
Also Known As: Fred Brathwaite, Fred Braithwaite, Fab Five Freddy, Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fred Brathwaite (born 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s, and later hosted the first hip-hop music video show on TV, "Yo! MTV Raps". Description above from the Wikipedia article Fab 5 Freddy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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The Universe of Keith Haring
Overview: A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for his preternatural talent, of course, but also for his infectious lust for life that had him as committed to social activism and teaching children as to his latest painting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
Overview: Fifty years ago in the Bronx, a new genre of music was born, the product of a people searching for their voice and the opportunity to be heard. For decades, the community was bound by the words of leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X before their assassinations attempted to thwart the messaging. While their lives ended, the impact of their words never would, instead paving the way for others. Soon, athletes and entertainers would step to the microphone and boldly become the sound of a new generation and an inspiration to their people. When the world looked to silence them, the culture found a way to speak louder than ever before. From Muhammad Ali to Public Enemy, Jay-Z to Lebron James and beyond, the impact on sports has been indelible.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Overview: The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from heady days of post-war jazz to hip hop and beyond.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-12
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Overview: A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt with being a black artist in a predominantly white field. The film also explores Basquiat's rise in the art world, which led to a close relationship with Andy Warhol, and looks at how the young painter coped with acclaim, scrutiny and fame.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
Overview: Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide phenomenon. His iconic images of kids sporting sneakers and savvy street style caught the essence of hip-hop as it exploded onto the streets of New York. Intimate interviews with Shabazz and hip hop pioneers explore the hundreds of individual stories and urban history behind a revolutionary cultural movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-02
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Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Overview: Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-04
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Who's the Man?
Overview: Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Downtown '81
Overview: The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-13
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Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Overview: A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV Raps" premiered on August 6, 1988 with hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Doctor Dré, and shaped the careers of many of today’s hip hop superstars, while simultaneously making groundbreaking strides in introducing hip hop to the mainstream.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-07
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Wild Style
Overview: Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension between Zoro's passion for his art and his personal life, particularly his strained relationship with fellow artist Rose.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-01
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Keith Haring: The Message
Overview: Keith Haring: The Message was released in conjunction with the Keith Haring retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Directed by famed designer, Madonna stylist and Haring confidante Maripol, The Message goes pretty deep into both the artist and the city and times he’ll forever be identified with: New York City, circa the 1980s. The focus, as the title indicates, is upon the “struggles that animated” Keith Haring’s work, his activism – in a word, his “message.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Juice
Overview: Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-17
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American Gangster
Overview: Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Hustlers Convention
Overview: The story of Sport and Spoon - two young hustlers who attend the eponymous convention, only to get tangled up in a financial disagreement that leads to a shootout, police chase and finishes with Sport on death row, weighing up what it all means. Taking its title from the album, the film blends archive photos with interviews and uses unique animated sequences set to the album. It portrays Hustlers Convention in its wider social context and Jalal's personal story as one of rap's undisputed pioneers.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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The Freshest Kids
Overview: From the Boogie Down Bronx and beyond, the history of the b-boy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Blank City
Overview: In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-06
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Barry
Overview: A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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New Jack City
Overview: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-08
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Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Overview: This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be interviewed for a TV documentary. With striking candour, Basquiat's art dealers - including Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone and Bruno Bischofberger - as well as his most intimate friends, lovers and fellow artists, expose the cash, the drugs and the pernicious racism which Basquiat confronted on a daily basis. As historical tableaux, visual diaries of defiance or surfaces covered with hidden meanings, Basquiat's art remains the beating heart of this story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Overview: 1)In The Flesh 2)X Offender 3)Denis 4)Detroit 442 5)(I'm Always Touched By Your)Presence,Dear 6)Picture This 7)Hanging On The Telephone 8)Heart Of Glass 9)Dreaming 10)Union City Blue 11)Atomic 12)The Tide Is High 13)Rapture 14)The Hardest Part 15)Island Of Lost Souls 16)Maria
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-08
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Downtown Calling
Overview: In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en mass housing corruption gave way to a city in crisis. Yet out of the economic and social strife that held the "Big Apple" hostage, a family of homegrown cultures that would forever change the world began to emerge. Downtown Calling not only documents, in detail, the evolution of New York City's fertile music and art subculture during this period, but how its collective output continues to play a prominent, driving role in the international fashion, art and music industries today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-24
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And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Overview: The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With interviews from various figures in the community such as Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy, KRS-One, MC Hammer and Busy Bee.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-02
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Overview: An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in music have performed here.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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TV Party
Overview: From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge of civility and "sub-realism" as Glenn would put it. Walter Steding and his TV Party "Orchestra" provided a musical accompaniment to the madness at hand, and many artists and musicians, from The Clash, Nile Rodgers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bryne and Arto Lindsey were regular guests. It was the cocktail party that could be a political party. With 80 hours of disintegrating 3/4 inch videotape as a starting point, we tracked down the trend setting participants still living today and found out what they remember of the period and how the show influenced their lives. This, combined with clips from the orginal show, became the documentary "TV Party.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-03
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A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
Overview: In this revelatory documentary, hip-hop legend and art lover Fab 5 Freddy (aka Fred Brathwaite) saddles up to explore 15th-century Italian renaissance art in 15th-century style – on horseback. Amidst superstar artists such as Michelangelo, Giotto, Ghiberti and Carpaccio, Fab discovers groundbreaking images of a multi-racial and multi-ethnic society that have slipped through the cracks of art history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-27
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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Overview: The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-14
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She's Gotta Have It
Overview: The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-08
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NB80s
Overview: A look at the NBA and its players during the 1980s, including the introduction of the 3-point shot, the transformation of the Los Angeles Lakers into "Showtime," and the rivalry between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Narrated by Fab 5 Freddy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-30
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Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Overview: In the 1980s Keith Haring blazed a trail through the galleries and nightclubs of downtown New York's art scene. Rebellious and ingenious, Haring chose to operate both inside and outside the art world. Inspired by the city's graffiti scene, he made New York's subways, tarpaulins and walls his canvas. This new feature documentary blends stunning archive and an edgy soundtrack, with tender and candid first-hand accounts of Haring. It tells the extraordinary story of an artist who lived and created with a boundless energy, throughout the social, cultural and political counter-revolution of the 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-04
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Picasso Baby
Overview: Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-02
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NB90s
Overview: A look at the NBA and its players during the 1990s, including Michael Jordan's all-conquering Chicago Bulls, possibly the greatest draft class ever, and the arrival of Vinsanity. Narrated by Fab 5 Freddy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-04
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Overview: Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
Overview: By the dawn of the 21st century, hip-hop sales had reached an all-time high, but one thing has remained the same. The doors were still locked, and the music industry held the keys. Young artists began to self-market on the Internet, ultimately helping to collapse the music industry as we knew it. It’s Yours explores how it became possible to become a rap star through a Twitter account, YouTube site or Myspace page. It tells this story through the unique perspectives of numerous artists, producers, record industry insiders, and music and cultural critics.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-13
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Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Overview: Christopher Wallace, AKA The Notorious B.I.G., remains one of Hip-Hop’s icons, renowned for his distinctive flow and autobiographical lyrics. This documentary celebrates his life via rare behind-the-scenes footage and the testimonies of his closest friends and family.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-01
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Rachel Getting Married
Overview: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-03
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Overview: Ricky Powell boasts a quintessential New York story, rising to fame as a street photographer in the 80’s and 90’s and touring with the Beastie Boys, capturing some of the wildest moments in popular culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-30
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Tupac: Resurrection
Overview: Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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