An undercover police woman poses as a nighclub entertainer to catch the main man behind the racketeers going on around Harlem. Meanwhile two men are falling for her.
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware...
Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry...
This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Perform...
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner...
When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained...
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become p...
A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a c...
Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 192...
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with addit...
Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the y...
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, cele...
A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporti...
Harlem, 1926. A “sweetman” Zeddy, living off a woman, brings a country girl he’s trying to impress t...
This was one of a series of concerts James Brown gave at the Apollo in Harlem in March 1968. This pe...
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ...
Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money a...
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a succe...
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...
Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hi...