He clearly has a lot to say: His anthology Small Axe, which he directed ... a favorite meeting place for Black Londoners. Before long, it's being raided by white police constables, driving away ...

When the British filmmaker Steve McQueen conceived the five films he collectively named “Small Axe,” he could ... the gatherings that Black people, unwelcome in white nightclubs, created ...

For his latest work, he has turned inward to his own roots growing up in a Black West Indian community in London to cull five distinctively different but connected stories in Small Axe.

The episode culminates with Stewart performing Michael Kiwanuka’s “Black Man in a White World” as he takes ... the five-part anthology “Small Axe” for Amazon Prime Video.

The five films in “Small Axe,” all directed by McQueen ... gathers nearly 200 black-and-white photographs showing a century of political struggles. An acclaimed revival of “Fiddler on ...