HOOP DREAMS (1994)
A group of young documentary filmmakers spent five years capturing the day-to-day struggles of pair of teenage phenoms who leave their inner-city Chicago homes to play for a suburban (and predominately white) high-school-basketball powerhouse. Pulsing beneath the many important issues — race, class, and the commodification of sports — raised in this bracingly powerful film is the story of two young men dealing with life in all its heartbreakingly human dimensions.