For those of you who subscribe to Netflix and use their "Watch Instantly" function, here's a real treat.  Stacy Peralta's new documentry Crips and Bloods: Made in America is now available (of course you can rent it, too).  This documentary fits so well into our current discussions concerning Dr. Gates recent ordeal.

I thought Peralta did a bang-up job with his earlier film Dogtown and Z-Boys.  I mean how can you turn something as parochial as skate boarding into compelling social commentary.  But he exceeds himself with this new film.  Crips & Bloods opens with a shot of downtown LA upside down, and the city slowly rolls over - very compelling.  It hurts to watch the documentary, and you really do get a sense of an unique and seperate reality that only South Central people are intimately familiar with.

Peralta also wrote a column at HufPo explaining the background of making the film, The Movie They Didn't Want You to See. There are links to previews and vido clips at the bottom.