This box set includes the first two features and three short films directed by acclaimed African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett. The centerpiece is his rediscovered UCLA student film Killer of Sheep (1977, 80 mins.), chosen for the National Film Registry in 1990 and now revered as "an American masterpiece, independent to the bone" (Manohla Dargis, N.Y. Times). While not photographing packs of children at play in the rubble of South Central L.A., the black-and-white film details the social and psychological hardships experienced by the unlikely protagonist, Stan. He's a depressed slaughterhouse worker/family man growing increasingly numb, and Burnett captures the sadness, sweetness, and humor of his life with improvised lyrical grace and neorealist grit. My Brother's Wedding (1983/2007, 81/110 mins.) was rushed to a festival before the director's final cut in 1983, when it received lackluster reviews and was shelved. Re-edited decades later by Burnett, the restored picture shows the crushing and comedic situations that arise when Pierce Mundy chooses between attending the funeral of a friend or the wedding of his brother to an upper-middle-class black woman. Burnett's early short Several Friends (1969, 23 mins.) is another naturally funny and politicized slice-of-life shot in South Central. Also included is The Horse (1973, 13 mins.), which the director describes as a "kind of allegory about the South." Lastly, in When It Rains (1995, 13 mins.), an urban musician spends a day searching for rent money for a mother and her child, amounting to what Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum calls as "a near miracle."