We’ve been bringing you the first images from films that will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, and today we have two films that will be premiering in-competition in the US Documentary category: Beats, Rhymes and Life and Buck. Beats, Rhymes and Life marks the feature directorial debut of actor Michael Rapaport (Hitch) and tells the story of the rise and influence of hip-hop band “A Tribe Called Quest.”Buck focuses on horse trainer Buck Brannaman, who uses a non-violence technique that involves respect and trust to train his horses. To check out the images and a brief synopsis from each film, hit the jump. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 20 – 30th.BEATS, RHYMES AND LIFE

(Director: Michael Rapaport) – The story of the rise and influence of one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the collective known as A Tribe Called Quest.

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BUCK

(Director: Cindy Meehl) – In a story about the power of non-violence, master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses principles of respect and trust to tame horses and inspire their human counterparts.

And here are links to the first images from other films playing at Sundance:

  • Another Earth (starring William Mapother, Brit Marling, and Jordan Baker)
  • Becoming Chaz (directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)
  • Benavides Born (starring Corina Calderon, Jeremy Ray Valdez, and Joseph Julian Soria)
  • Bobby Fischer Against the World (directed by Liz Garbus)
  • The Catechism Cataclysm (starring Steve Little, Robert Longstreet and Walter Dalton)
  • Cedar Rapids (starring John C. Reilly, Ed Helms, and Sigourney Weaver)
  • Circumstance (starring Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, and Reza Sixo Safai)
  • Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (starring Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler and Jackie Monahan)
  • The Convincer (starring Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, and Alan Arkin)
  • Corman’s World (directed by Alex Stapleton)
  • The Details (starring Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, and Laura Linney)
  • The Devil’s Double (starring Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, and Mimoun Oaissa)
  • Granito (directed by Pamela Yates)
  • The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (directed by Morgan Spurlock)
  • HERE (starring Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal and Narek Nersisyan)
  • Higher Ground (starring Vera Farmiga, John Hawkes, and Dagmara Dominczyk)
  • Hobo with a Shotgun (starring Rutger Hauer, Molly Dunsworth, and Gregory Smith)
  • Homework (starring Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, and Michael Angarano)
  • I Melt With You (starring Rob Lowe, Thomas Jane, and Jeremy Piven)
  • The Interrupters (directed by Steve James)
  • The Ledge (starring Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard, Christopher Gorham)
  • Life in a Day (directed by Kevin Macdonald, produced by Ridley Scott)
  • Like Crazy (starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston)
  • Little Birds (starring Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Leslie Mann, Kate Bosworth, and Kyle Gallner)
  • Magic Trip (directed by Alex Gibney)
  • Margin Call (starring Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, and Paul Bettany)
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene (starring Elizabeth Olsen, Hugh Dancy, and John Hawkes)
  • The Music Never Stopped (starring J.K. Simmons, Julia Ormond, and Cara Seymour)
  • My Idiot Brother (starring Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, and Zooey Deschanel)
  • On The Ice (starring Josiah Patkotak, Frank Qutuq Irelan, Teddy Kyle Smith, Adamina Kerr, and Sierra Jade Sampson)
  • The Oregonian (starring Lindsay Pulsipher, Robert Longstreet, and Matt Olsen)
  • Pariah (starring Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker and Kim Wayans)
  • Perfect Sense (starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, and Ewen Bremner)
  • Reagan (directed by Eugene Jarecki)
  • Rebirth (directed by Jim Whitaker)
  • Red State (directed by Kevin Smith; Starring Michael Parks, John Goodman, and Melissa Leo)
  • Salvation Boulevard (starring Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, and Ed Harris)
  • Septien (starring Robert Longstreet, Onur Tukel and Michael Tully)
  • Take Shelter (starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain)
  • The Son of No One (starring Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, and Juliette Binoche)
  • These Amazing Shadows (directed by Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton)
  • Terri (starring Jacob Wysocki, John C. Reilly, and Creed Bratton)
  • Troll Hunters (starring Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, and Hans Morten Hansen)
  • Vampire (starring Kevin Zegers, Rachael Leigh Cook and Keisha Castle-Hughes)
  • Win Win (starring Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, and Jeffrey Tambor)
  • The Woman (starring Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers and Angela Bettis)