8 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Spike Lee's 2018 film about the first Black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan.
A 1975 film by Sidney Lumet based on the true story of a bank robbery that becomes a media circus and hostage situation on a sweltering Brooklyn afternoon.
A 2002 film by Christopher Nolan about a guilt-ridden Los Angeles detective who accidentally shoots his partner while hunting a killer in the perpetually sunlit Alaskan wilderness.
A 1973 film by Martin Scorsese about small-time Italian-American criminals in Manhattan's Little Italy, blending documentary-style street footage with guilt-drenched Catholic psychology.
A 1970 British film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg in which a violent gangster hides in a reclusive rock star's London house and undergoes a dissolution of identity.
A 1981 film by Sidney Lumet about an NYPD narcotics detective who becomes an informant against his partners and must navigate the resulting moral and personal destruction.
A 1973 film by Sidney Lumet about real-life NYPD detective Frank Serpico, who refused to take bribes and was shot in a drug raid after reporting fellow officers.
A 1956 heist film by Stanley Kubrick depicting a racetrack robbery through multiple fractured timeframes, featuring criminals in clown masks.