In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of immigration to the United States from 1892 to 1954, an enthralling polyphonic narrative that embraces both small and great history.

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

Libertad is a combination of intense drama, villainy , betrayal , romance , heroism and redemption ....

Winner of the DOC NYC Audience Award, Director Nick Canfield’s first film follows gospel-rock icon a...

The morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in and around New York Cit...


Lost in the Crowd is a documentary film by Austrian filmmaker Susi Graf about LGBT homeless youth in...

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after ha...

Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influe...

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art mo...

In the 1970s the North American Soccer League marked the first attempt to introduce soccer to Americ...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

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...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...