本片由《王牌對王牌》導演葛瑞葛雷（F. Gary Gray）執導的音樂傳記電影，成本僅2420萬美元。聚焦在80年代轟動一時，在Hip-Hop音樂中奠定了重要地位的傳奇團體N.W.A從崛起到解散的故事，並由Ice Cube及Dr. Dre擔任製作。 1987年在美國加州康普頓街頭有五個年輕人，冰塊酷巴(Ice Cube)、MC Ren、德瑞博士(Dr. Dre)、耶拉(DJ Yella)、埃里克·賴特(Eazy-E)，他們使用粗魯直白和強烈的旋律節奏，將他們在這個美國最危險的地方，所經歷到的失望和憤怒，用音樂轉化成最有力的武器。《衝出康普頓》真實紀錄那些人，如何用音樂述說真實，向當局挑起文化戰火，同時警醒了整個社會，革命性的影響直到今日依舊迴蕩在人們心中。
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. WHen these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
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.
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.
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 drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
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.
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.