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This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 L.A. riots. But the uprising did not occur in a vacuum.

Back in 1991, there was the shooting death of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African American girl who was shot in the head by a Korean grocery store owner as she tried to purchase a carton of orange juice. The store owner who killed her was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and placed on probation.

There were the sweeps of indiscriminate arrests of black men in the late 1980s, and the oppressive force of Police Chief Daryl Gates, who joined the Los Angeles Police Department as chief in 1978 and implemented aggressive and racist police practices inside majority minority communities.

But go back even further to the year 1965, and filmmaker Sacha Jenkins says the Watts Riots, sparked by the arrest of African American motorist Marquette Frye, are a direct parallel to the frustration that boiled over in the city of Los Angeles almost 30 years later. 

Sacha Jenkins's documentary, "Burn, Motherf*cker, Burn!," tells the story of Los Angeles in 1992 through the lens of the 1965 Watts Riots. He says that to this day, we still haven't fully learned the lessons of the past.

Check out a trailer for the film above.