Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary Concept-East Poetry appearance at New York's Paperback Theater in 1969. Described as “a conspiracy of ritual, street theater, soul music and cinema."
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a tim...
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is f...
This musical comedy with an all-black cast imagines what television entertainment will be like in th...
Francois the Tree Man is far from his wife and three small children in Quebec, selling Christmas tre...
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey per...
An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes...
The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles ...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Follow Nicky Minaj's entry into the Hip-Hop scene with her debut mixtape "Playtime Is Over".
Follow the Queen Bee Lil' Kim in the experience of a lifetime as she makes her way around the countr...
Lil' Kim... a pint-sized rapper, with a not-so-pint size amount of money. In this episode, you'll ex...
How did the disagreement get to this point? So together we will tell the story of Lil' Kim & Nicki M...
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
Jeppy Bass is the story of a college student's struggles to make his thesis short film, entitled 'Da...
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
A film about three teenagers - Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - from the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Th...
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...