Missouri History Museum

Crips and Bloods is the first major nonfiction film to term the decades-long gang strife in South Central Los Angeles as a war on the scale of Kosovo, Mogadishu or Northern Ireland. Stacy Peralta's bracing film grimly examines the causes and nature of the area's epidemic violence. Laying out a history while talking directly to former and current members of the Crips and the Bloods, his picture assumes a wide audience that's little informed on the horrors. (Running time: 60 minutes)

Join us after the film for a panel discussion to include Denise DeCou, Exectutive Director of the National Conference for Community Justice of Metropolitan St. Louis (NCCJSTL), and Larry Bastain, director and producer of the local documentary Off the Record: Conversations on the Streets of St. Louis.

A post-panel discussion will be hosted by The Royale (3132 S. Kingshighway).