Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1999, filmmaker Davy Rothbart met Emmanuel Sanford-Durant and his older brother, Smurf, during a pickup basketball game in ...

An African American family struggles to avoid the gun violence and drug addiction that plague their D.C. community in Davy Rothbart’s uncompromising, decades-spanning documentary. In “17 Blocks,” ...

17 BLOCKS will have a national release on Feb. 19th, and will be virtual theatrical in more than 100 cities, through MTV Documentary Films and partner organizations Everytown for Gun Safety and Black ...

Davy Rothbart's long journey with "17 Blocks" is finally coming home. The Ann Arbor native will host a free screening of his 2019 documentary Tuesday at the Michigan Theater, the same theater that ...

"Everything changed in one night." MTV Doc Films has revealed a new official trailer for the acclaimed documentary titled 17 Blocks, now known as 17 Blocks: The Final Cut for release this year. It ...

A lot can happen to a family over 20 years, especially in a neighborhood battered by crime, underserved by society and stricken by hopelessness. Set in the perennially troubled Southeast D.C. area ...

Exclusive: Spanning 20 years and culled from over 1,000 hours of footage, Davy Rothbart's award-winning documentary illuminates a national emergency. In 1999, filmmaker Davy Rothbart met Emmanuel ...

In “17 Blocks,” Cheryl Sanford, matriarch of a low-income African American household in southeast Washington, D.C., talks wistfully of a “parallel universe” where she and her family enjoy cookouts, ...