← Cinema Atlas
Rodney King poster
Also available
data via JustWatch
Stream Netflix · +2 more
UNITED STATES · 2017

Rodney King

Spike Lee
New Black Cinema police brutality racial justice Los Angeles riots legal system accountability biographical drama
Where to watch
M
Find on MUBI
Hand-picked cinema, one film at a time
→
C
Search the Criterion Channel
Browse the collection
→
Trailer
Synopsis

25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this Spike Lee-produced one-man show (Roger Guenver Smith) will be streaming on Netflix. A complex, semi-tragic figure, King drowned in 2012. His life was rarely smooth, or simple – its telling makes for a sober, moving watch.

Year2017
CountryUnited States
DirectorSpike Lee
MovementNew Black Cinema
Cinematic Threads

We haven't mapped this film's connections yet. Explore Spike Lee's other work or films from United States below.

More from Spike Lee → Cinema of United States →

More from Spike Lee

United States · New Black Cinema
Highest 2 Lowest
Highest 2 Lowest
2025 · United States
David Byrne's American Utopia
David Byrne's American Utopia
2020 · United States
New York New York
New York New York
2020 · United States

Films with Similar Themes

police brutality · racial justice · Los Angeles riots · legal system accountability · biographical drama
Clash
Clash
2016 · Mohamed Diab
8 Million Ways to Die
8 Million Ways to Die
1986 · Hal Ashby
First Blood
First Blood
1982 · Ted Kotcheff
Nada
Nada
1974 · Claude Chabrol
The Offence
The Offence
1973 · Sidney Lumet
Le Deuxième souffle
Le Deuxième souffle
1966 · Jean-Pierre Melville

More from United States

Cinema of United States
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song