Representations On Film
Larry Davis tells his story in a 2003 film. The film describes Davis as being "shot in the head at point blank range" by police during the raid; and how he "turned himself in to the FBI, in exchange for their guarantee to investigate the NYPD's involvement in drug deals that he was forced to participate in as a teenager."
In July 2006, Variety magazine reported that Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Damon Dash was planning a documentary on Davis.
The BET documentary series American Gangster did a profile on Larry Davis. Revealed in that episode was that Davis arranged to be interviewed by the show on the same day he died.
The second episode of the 2010 A&E television series Fugitive Chronicles dramatizes the manhunt for Davis and features interviews with involved police officers.
The 1997 Sidney Lumet film Night Falls on Manhattan was inspired by Davis's 1986 shootout with the police.
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