Lee released the film 3 Brothers in conjunction with his guest television channel CNN, commenting on the wave of protests that are sweeping across the United States, writes The Guardian.
The film begins with the words: "Will the story repeat itself?" and consists of footage from police arrest of George Floyd on May 25 and of Eric Garner who in 2014 died of asphyxiation as a result of a police intervention on Staten Island.
Lee then cut the material together with scenes from his movie Do the Right Thing from 1989, where one of the characters, Radio Raheem, is suffocated during a police operation.
Do the right thing, which became Spike Lee's breakthrough, takes place in an area in Brooklyn and is about how love and conflicts across ethnic boundaries reach a violent culmination a summer's baking.
The United States has been shaken by violent protests in recent days following the death of George Floyd and told CNN Spike Lee that he does not understand why people do not realize what is going on in the US.
- This is nothing new, we saw it during the riots in the 60's and when Martin Luther King was murdered. Every time something happens and we don't get justice, people react as they do to make their voices heard.