Steve James

All Movies of Steve James

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  A Compassionate Spy
  Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, to create a bomb before the Germans did, Ted Hall didn't share his colleagues' elation after the successful detonatio...
  Director of the film

   2022

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  6.0
  City So Real
  As a factious mayoral election coincides with the trial of the police officer who killed Laquan McDonald, Chicago becomes a flashpoint, with the city as a tinderbox and its citizens ready to spark.
  Director of the film

   2020

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  Love, Once and Always (TV)
  When Lucy Windsor's (Amanda Schull) childhood sweetheart plans to demolish her great aunt's Gilded Age estate and replace it with a golf course, she fights to preserve it. As they set out to find a compromise, they learn that embr...
   2018

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  5.0
  Drink Slay Love (TV)
  Pearl is a typical sixteen-year-old vampire. Fond of blood, allergic to the sun, and generally pretty evil. But after a mysterious attack leaves her able to survive in the daylight, everything changes. Pearl's powerful family soon...
  Character: Uncle Felix

   2017

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  6.0
  Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
  A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis.
  Director of the film

   2017

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  The New Yorker Presents (TV Series)
  America's most award-winning magazine comes to life in this new docu-series. Produced by Oscar & Emmy winner Alex Gibney, the pilot features a doc from Oscar winner Jonathan Demme based on Rachel Aviv's article "A Very Va...
  Director of the film

   2015

• 
  7.9
  Life Itself
  It's the first-ever feature-length documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, which is enough of a reason for us to see it. But the fact that it's directed by Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") and features interviews with filmmak...
  | Movie director

   2014

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  7.0
  The Interrupters
  The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author ...
  Director of the film

   2011

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  At the Death House Door
  Pickett presided over 95 executions in his 15 year career, including the very first by lethal injection. He kept his feelings about his work from his family, instead audiotaping an account of each one. Initially pro-execution, he ...
  Director of the film

   2008

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  Joe and Max (TV)
  American boxer Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts) meets German champion Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger) in the ring in 1936, and Schmeling emerges victorious. They fight in the ring once again in 1938, and Louis hospitalizes his German cou...
  Director of the film

   2002

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  Stevie
  He began a film, a search, to discover not only what had happened to Stevie over the past ten years but to understand the forces that had shaped his entire life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested and charged with a ...
  Director of the film

   2002

• 
  6.4
  Prefontaine
  Life and times of Steve Prefontaine, a young long-distance runner from Oregon who pursued the dream of Olympic gold in Munich and became one of the biggest, yet most tragic sport stars in America.
  Director of the film

   1997

• 
  8.0
  Hoop Dreams
  Two ordinary inner-city kids dare to dream the impossible — professional basketball glory — in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period, Hoop Dreams follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates as t...
  Director of the film

   1994

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  McBain
  Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the oppressive El Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the ...
   1991

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  6.0
  Mister Johnson
  In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he ...
   1990

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  5.0
  I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
  A comedy spoof on the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Wayans plays Jack Spade, an army private just returning from the service. He comes home to find his younger brother June Bug dead of a overdose of gold chains (an "O.G....
   1988

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  3.3
  Johnny Be Good
  It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should h...
  Character: Coach Sanders

   1988

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  C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (TV)
   1988

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  4.6
  Hero and the Terror
  Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and h...
  Character: Robinson

   1988

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  C.A.T. Squad (TV)
  When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense , an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad, are brought in to to stop the killers. The squad consists of five members. The leader i...
   1986

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  7.3
  To Live and Die in L.A.
  Secret Service agent Richard Chance has a score to settle and he's through playing by the rules. Whether that means blackmailing a beautiful parolee, disobeying direct orders or hurtling the wrong way down a crowded freeway, he vo...
  Character: Jeff Rice

   1985

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  7.8
  Mask
  Rusty Dennis is the mother of Rocky, a seriously deformed but extremely intelligent and emotionally warm child. Rusty is a no-nonsense mother whose wild lifestyle is often at odds with her tenderness and protectiveness towards Roc...
   1985

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  The Brother From Another Planet
  A mute extraterrestrial with healing powers lands in New York, looking remarkably like an African American male. He quickly makes his way to Harlem, where he manages to fit in, despite his inability to speak and his off-kilter way...
   1984

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  5.0
  The Soldier
  The Russians steal a nuclear device and are stating that unless the Israelis pull out from the West bank, they will detonate it, which they have planted in an oil field and if it should go off; 50% of the World's oil will be conta...
   1982

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  The Exterminator
  A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
   1980

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  5.0
  Enter the Game of Death
  Character: Black Martial Artist

   1978