Hvad gør man som et mindre hold i en sportsverden fyldt med velhavende klubber, der sidder på både titlerne og de bedste spillere? For Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), den altdominerende direktør for baseballholdet Oakland As, som sætter hele holdet og skaffer spillere, er svaret enkelt - man ændrer selve grundlaget for tilgangen til spillet. Beane hyrer derfor matematiknørden Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), og snart begynder det udsædvanlige makkerskab at rekruttere oversete spillere med de helt rette evner.
En telefonsælger stiger hurtigt i graderne efter at have taget imod råd fra en kollega – indtil hans succes fører ham ud i både arbejdsmæssigt og moralsk kaos.
Oscar Grant III er afroamerikaner, 22 år og meget afholdt af sit lokalsamfund i Hayward, Californien. Oscar har en fortid som hashsælger, men har siden holdt sin sti ren af hensyn til sin kæreste og deres lille datter, som han elsker højt. Vi følger Oscar i løbet af nytårsaftensdag 2009, hvor et intermezzo med en gruppe metrobetjente på Fruitvale station får en skæbnesvanger udgang for Oscar.
Da politimanden Hang Sing får meddelelsen om mordet på sin bror, flygter han fra sit fængsel og begiver sig til USA for at undersøge omstændighederne. Hans far er forbryderkonge og har sluttet våbenhvile med den afroamerikanske mafia i området for at afslutte en stor handel og er derfor ikke interesseret i hævn. Da Sing slår pjalterne sammen med den smukke Trish, datter af ærkerivalens leder, bliver tingene ekstra komplicerede.
Dette er den virkelige historie om den legendariske fodboldtræner Bob Ladouceur, som bragte De La Salle High School Spartans fra intet og til at vinde 151 kampe i træk og slå alle rekorder for alle amerikanske sportsgrene. Da sejrsrækken stopper, og tragedien rammer holdet, må Coach Lad lære sine spillere – og hele byen – at det ikke handler om, hvordan man falder, men hvordan man rejser sig igen.
A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.
In 1987 Oakland, a mysterious force guides The Town’s underdogs in four interconnected tales: teen punks defend their turf against Nazi skinheads, a rap duo battles for hip-hop immortality, a weary henchman gets a shot at redemption, and an NBA All-Star settles the score.
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.
A love song to the artists, dance, music, slang, clothes and, most importantly of all, the people who came of age during the Hyphy Movement. We were there, we were hyphy.
A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.
An Oakland mayoral candidate struggles to figure out her personal and professional lives.
Dave and Joe, just evicted from their Oakland apartment, turn to stealing cars and dealing Fluoride to make their financial ends meet. One night they find Summer Hayes, star of a popular 1990's teen soap, in the trunk of a stolen automobile. Shoot-outs, car chases, and overdoses ensue. In the Fluoride heightened world of "Medias Res", nothing is what it at first appears to be.
Through fly-on-the-wall footage and insightful interviews, director ShakaJamal chronicles the effort to create a first-of-its-kind yoga and mindfulness program for Oakland Unified School District middle schools. Aimed at expanding students’ awareness and refining their goals, the initiative has been a unique success, and I Am Hope offers a poignant portrait of the day-to-day struggles of diverse young people united in their desire to pursue big dreams.
Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. In 1992 he was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank robbery when his lyrics were used against him in court. He left prison with a new lease on life, founded an independent record company, and then was murdered just when he began to emerge as a star. For the first time ever, his mother Wanda reveals the true experiences of a hip-hop legend.
Method Sampling is explored through the works of a hip-hop orchestra, a disabled choreographer, a self-taught Black mycologist, a tiny house builder and a critical theorist.
A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.
When Ollie’s mother is attacked by a monster hiding in the depths of Lake Merritt, he sets out on a mission to find her—discovering instead a hidden network of monster-hunters tasked with protecting Oakland from its own dark underbelly.