Bloods and Crips: L.A. Gangs (2008)

NGC takes viewers to the streets of South Central Los Angeles as it charts the rise of two of the most notorious gangs in America: the Bloods and the Crips. Throughout the twentieth century, distinct periods of black American gang formation occurred in Los Angeles, from the early 1940s into the early 2000s. The first black gangs developed in the second half of the 1940s and 1950s in defense from white teenage gangs determined to attack and harass black youth.