Watch The Cool World (1963) Online

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society. There is no patronizing of the black race in this cinematic cry for justice. A fifteen-year-old boy called Duke is ambitious to buy a "piece" (a gun) from an adult racketeer named Priest, to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem. It is a clearly patent allegory of an attempt by Duke to attain manhood and identity in the only way accessible to him - the antisocial one. Read More

Watch The Cool World online. Featuring Rony Clanton and Carl Lee, The Cool World is classified as Drama and Crime genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5.6. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1963. The Cool World was directed by Joe Oliver,Hugh A. Robertson,Frederick Wiseman,Shirley Clarke. Read Less