يعود الفيلم بالزمن إلى عام 1987، منطلقًا من منطقة كومبتون الفقيرة في مدينة لوس انجلوس، حيث يقرر خمسة شباب أمريكان من أصول أفريقية، وهم أن يشكلوا فريقًا موسيقيًا متخصصًا في موسيقى الراب، وتحدث أغاني الفريق ثورة كبيرة في الثقافة الأمريكية.
تنقلب حياة شامبرز رأسًا على عقب عندما يتم اتهامه بالاغتصاب ويذهب إلى السجن. عندما يصل إلى السجن، يسمع عن مونرو هاتشن بطل السجن في الملاكمة لمدة عشر سنوات.يرغب شامبرز في توضيح الأمور منذ البداية وأنه لن يكون أبدًا في المركز الثاني، ويؤدي ذلك للعديد من المشاكل. يقرر زميلهم المُدان إيمانويل أن يستغل ذلك التوتر في جني بعض المال، فينظم مباراةَ ملاكمةٍ بين الاثنين لتحديد البطل الحقيقي.
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
A nine-year-old girl who has just moved with her parents to Hamburg, Germany, is desperate for finding a best friend. The daughter of a Brazilian father and German mother, Lola is a little girl who dreams she's a rock star, but mostly dreams of having a best friend.
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.
Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.
A Nazi cult is attempting to track down a mysterious relic which they believe will bring about the rebirth of the Third Reich. Various other factions are closing in, hellbent on gaining the mythical power of the artifact for themselves.
Filmmaker Dan Murdoch meets America's most infamous supremacist group - the Ku Klux Klan - who say they are in the midst of a revival, with a surge in membership and cross lightings across the Deep South.