If you're arrested in New York City and can't make bail, you'll be sent to Rikers Island -- a mammoth holding facility for 17,000 men and women awaiting trial. TV journalist Jon Alpert spent ten months filming there, coming away with a graphic and unblinking portrait of life inside America's largest jail complex, including a moving look at the human faces behind the statistics.

An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing ...
This documentary interviews young people on war, religion, music, sex, and other topics. Part of NBC...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it...

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New ...

A unique and compelling account of the day that changed the modern world, captured by ordinary peopl...
Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual p...

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...

Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy b...

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreograp...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...

From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco...

Observations at Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, which is one of the most fascinating stations fo...

On Manhattan's jam-packed streets, NYC's most iconic driving instructor prepares students for the ro...

A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers...

Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of...

Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profes...