Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac

Jul 2, 2021

1h 45m

★ 6.7

Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac

Overview

Last Man Standing takes a look at Death Row and how L.A.’s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt LA police officers who were also gang affiliated. It would be this world of gang rivalry and dirty cops that would claim the lives of the world’s two greatest rappers: Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

Genres

Documentary

Music

Crime

Production Companies

Dogwoof

South Central Project Limited

BBC Music

Gravitas Ventures

Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

Tupac Shakur

Self (archive footage)

The Notorious B.I.G.

Self (archive footage)

Suge Knight

Self (archive footage)

Snoop Dogg

Self

Pam Brooks

Self (archive footage)

Russell Poole

Self (archive footage)

Bernard Parks

Self (archive footage)

Dr. Dre

Self (archive photos)

Sean Combs

Self (archive footage)

Voletta Wallace

Self (archive footage)

David Kenner

Self (archive footage)

Delores Tucker

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

5.1

Direct Action

May 25, 2004

Frank Gannon, a veteran cop, is being hunted by his fellow police officers after they learned he has betrayed the brotherhood and exposed to the feds wide scale corruption of the LAPD. He has one day left to prove his case and survive.

7.9

Nayakan

Oct 21, 1987

Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.

5.8

Q & A

Apr 27, 1990

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.

5.9

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Mar 3, 2004

Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection.

6.7

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Nov 11, 2009

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

6.9

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Nov 11, 2009

After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.

6.3

Cop

Feb 5, 1988

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

0.0

And What About Your Backyard?

Aug 2, 1987

About youth gangs on the streets of Kazan.

7.0

Prince of the City

Aug 19, 1981

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.

8.0

Step Back

Feb 6, 2021

A young man finds himself in troubled times, can he regain footing in his life?

6.4

Last Man Standing

Sep 20, 1996

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.

6.2

Red Heat

Jun 17, 1988

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

7.1

Magnum Force

Dec 13, 1973

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

5.2

Dirty

Jan 20, 2006

Two gangbangers turned cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.

6.1

Harlem Nights

Nov 17, 1989

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

6.2

The Big Easy

Nov 27, 1986

Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.

6.4

Internal Affairs

Jan 12, 1990

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.

6.6

The Salton Sea

Feb 12, 2002

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

6.8

Rumble in the Bronx

Jan 21, 1995

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.